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		collyw on Jan 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The growing irrelevance of MongoDB Have a category field or link in the table. Join to it. Joins are not evil, they are damn useful. And well done if your product has become large enough to have scaling problems that can't be solved by a bit of indexing on the joins.

crdoconnor on Jan 14, 2015 [–]

Joins are not supported by Mongo. Or at least, not in any way that isn't tortuous.

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