Im looking to use MongoDB for my database implementation. Why would you want to embded a document insode a document?
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Im looking to use MongoDB for my database implementation. Why would you want to embded a document insode a document?
It is one way to do what in a relational database you would do with a JOIN (something that you cannot do in MongoDB).
For example, you could have a MongoDB document as a blog post, and embed the list of comments right in there.
Then you can (for example):
All that would be impossible (or at least difficult) if the comments were stored in their own collection as separate documents.