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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt
Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

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How does database indexing of Arrays work?

This is without doubt, one of the reasons I chose NoSQL, e.g. MongoDB; but can it apply to RDBMS? Will it be simple / intuitive to maintain?

Usually one-to-many relationships, right? But I believe, 1. no relationship might be faster than one relationship; 2. what about maintenance and readability?

This only apply to easily indexable arrays, like Number or String, though.

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Camden Clark

Not clear what you mean by this. Are you asking how arrays as column values in relational databases are indexed? I think it depends on the specific relational database and what types of queries it supports on array values.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Edited

I think the answer is usually one-to-many relationships.

However, I am not sure if JSON or JSONB columns in PostGRES can be indexed. (That is, no Foreign keys needed.)

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

The answer for MongoDB is discussed in this link.

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