Fundamentals of Database Design

This chapter introduces a fictitious company called Sweets Complete Inc., and presents a database model based upon their needs. Special focus is placed upon moving from a set of customer requirements to a working MongoDB database design. The basic technique you will learn in this chapter is to first model the proposed document using JSON syntax, which can be tested in the mongo shell. You will then learn how to adapt the newly designed document to a Python entity class that will be put to use in the next chapter.

The topics that we will cover in this chapter are as follows:

• Reviewing customer requirements
• Building MongoDB document structures
• Developing the corresponding Python module