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by dahart 3175 days ago
No, that's not the issue I ran into. Their API has changed since this question was asked & answered to fix that particular issue.

The bigger issue remains that schema nesting causes a type of complexity that SQL dbs avoid by always being flat. Even that answer you linked to, the very last sentence is: the most important one for people new to NoSQL/hierarchical databases seems to be "avoid building nests".

Schema nesting in mongodb is also best avoided, if you can, e.g.:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5108790/mongodb-best-pra...