A Different Approach to Data Modeling: Thinking of Data Service Requirements
Pedro Visintin:
We can distinguish several objects: Session, Cart, Item, User, Order, Product and Payment. Usually we use ActiveRecord to store all of them. But this time let’s think about it differently.
For sessions, we don’t need durable data at all — Redis can be a good option, and of course will be faster than any RDBMS. For Cart and Item,we will need high availability across different locations. Riak can fit well for this use case. For User Order Product and Payment, a relational database can fit well, focusing on Transactions and Reporting about our application.
This is a very good exercise for understanding the requirements for your data service layer. As much as I write about polyglot persistence, when architecting an application never leave aside or ignore the operational requirements for your service.
Original title and link: A Different Approach to Data Modeling: Thinking of Data Service Requirements (©myNoSQL)
