MongoDb, a NoSQL document DB, doesn't support the JOIN as RDBMS do which is a very useful feature in DB domain. So what's new or addition in MongoDb which can overcome the JOIN feature. Let's understand this.
First of all, MongoDb is NOT a replacement of standard RDBMS system. It is misconception in DB world that NoSQL DB system will/can replace RDBMS or vice versa. No, It isn't or going to be. Both Database systems have own pros and cons which we will see later.
Embedding:
As the name itself reveals, Embed the data into the document means put all the data together in one document. This will provide a better read performance when you want to get all the related data in one read call as MongoDb stores one document at one place on the disk so minimum seek time is required when reading the data from disk drive.
Let's suppose. we want to create a data model for below ask -
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So, Embedding document will look like -
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Referencing:
Embedding will cause performance slowness when there are frequent CRUD operations on embedded document. In embedding, data duplication is highly probable. In these cases, we create a document reference rather than document. This is similar to parent-child relationship as we have in RDBMS.
Let's see now how our collection Books will look like -
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