We are wrestling with questions like this on the new document database we’re building. A database should correspond to some administrative domain object.
Today in Fireproof a database is a unit of sharing, but we are working toward a broader model where a database corresponds to an individual application’s state. So one database is all the shared documents not just a single unit of sharing.
These small changes early on can have big impact later. If you’re interested in these sort of design questions, the Fireproof Discord is where we are hashing out the v0.20 api.
(I was an early contributor to Apache CouchDB. Damien Katz, creator of CouchDB, is helping with engineering and raised these questions recently, along with other team members.)
Today in Fireproof a database is a unit of sharing, but we are working toward a broader model where a database corresponds to an individual application’s state. So one database is all the shared documents not just a single unit of sharing.
These small changes early on can have big impact later. If you’re interested in these sort of design questions, the Fireproof Discord is where we are hashing out the v0.20 api.
(I was an early contributor to Apache CouchDB. Damien Katz, creator of CouchDB, is helping with engineering and raised these questions recently, along with other team members.)