MongoDB

MongoBD

Overview

"By offering the best of traditional databases as well as the flexibility, scale, and performance required by today’s applications, MongoDB lets innovators deploy apps as big as they can possibly dream. From startups to enterprises, for the modern and the mission-critical, MongoDB is the database for giant ideas." - MongoDB

Schemas

A schema is a javascript file that defines the values and properties of a json object to be stored in the database

Creating a Schema

Follow this code replacing the names and variables that you need.

// app/models/player.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

var PlayerSchema = new Schema({
				// Basic Info
				firstName: String,
				lastName: String,
				isMale: Boolean,
				height: Number, 
				weight: Number,
				birthday: Date,
 				hometown: String,
				// Athletic Info
				// - stored as arrays so it can be graphed over time
				// - need to add in time component
				// - talk to Dawson about json objects
				bench: [Number],
				benchTimeStamp: [Date],
				squat: [Number],
				squatTimeStamp: [Date],
				power: [Number],
				powerTimeStamp: [Date],
				dash: [Number],
				dashTimeStamp: [Date],
				shuffle: [Number],
				shuffleTimeStamp: [Date],
				vertical: [Number],
				verticalTimeStamp: [Date],
				// Other Info
				// Sports played
				sports: [String],
				// Teams on
				teams: [String]
});

module.exports = mongoose.model('Player', PlayerSchema);