I need an advice about NoSQL/MongoDb and data/models structure

Question

Recently I\'m exploring NoSQL Databases. I need an advice about how to store data in the most optimal and efficient way for a given problem. I\'m targeting MongoDB, now. However

Answer 1

I've been looking into MongoDB and CouchDB a lot lately, but my insight is limited. Still, when thinking about storing the votes inside the story document, you might have to worry about hitting the 4MB document size limit. Even if you don't, you might be constantly increasing the size of the document enough to cause it to get moved and thus slowing down your writes (see how documents are sized in MongoDB).

As for CouchDB, these kinds of things are quite simple, elegant, and quite fast once the view indexes are calculated. Personally, however, I have hesitated to do a similar project in CouchDB because of benchmarks showing it progressively slowing down to a considerable degree as the database grows (and the view indexes grow). I'd love to see some more recent benchmarks showing CouchDB performance as database size increases. I WANT to try MongoDB or CouchDB, but SQL still seems so efficient and logical, so I'll stay with it until the project fits the temptation just right.