Mongodb schema design

Question

I\'m confused, what is the best format for the following case:

Name: Pretty nice hot dog
Stock: 10
Weight: 0.1 grams
Price: 2 dollars

Name: An ordinary dumb         


        

Answer 1

Read Schema Design from MongoDb docs. This is exactly your case.

Answer 2

I'd say no. Unless you need the flexibility to query from the units (all items with a certain cost), I wouldn't. And if you need to, you can always use map reduce to get all items of a certain cost later on.