Towards Principled, Practical Document Database Design
Summary: Advocates a principled, data-first, conceptually grounded methodology for designing document databases, replacing application-driven ad hoc practices. Distills design guidance and JSON anti-patterns from diverse real-world deployments to produce clean, query-friendly schemas. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Michael Carey (Couchbase; University of California Irvine)
- 2. Wail Alkowaileet (Saudi National Center for Artificial Intelligence)
- 3. Nick DiGeronimo (University of California Irvine)
- 4. Peeyush Gupta (Couchbase)
- 5. Sachin Smotra (Dataworkz, Inc.)
- 6. Till Westmann (Couchbase)
BibTeX Citation
@article{carey_vldb25,
title = {{Towards Principled, Practical Document Database Design}},
author = {Carey, Michael and Alkowaileet, Wail and DiGeronimo, Nick and Gupta, Peeyush and Smotra, Sachin and Westmann, Till},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {12},
pages = {4804--4816},
doi = {10.14778/3750601.3750606},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3750601.3750606},
year = {2025}
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| 1,056 | A Normal Form for Nested Relations | 1985 | PODS | 0.00012388199 |
| 5,547 | Beyond Relations: A Case for Elevating to the Entity-Relationship Abstraction | 2025 | CIDR | 6.1790655e-05 |
| 6,112 | Have Your Data and Query It Too: From Key-Value Caching to Big Data Management | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.9718141e-05 |
| 6,516 | The Design of non-1NF Relational Databases into Nested Normal Form | 1987 | SIGMOD | 5.8545649e-05 |
| 8,097 | Couchbase Analytics: NoETL for Scalable NoSQL Data Analysis | 2019 | VLDB | 5.4875142e-05 |
| 8,682 | Columnar Formats for Schemaless LSM-based Document Stores | 2022 | VLDB | 5.3857524e-05 |
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