I’ve been researching how to properly design a mongo schema and came across this blog post on their site: http://blog.mongodb.org/post/87892923503/6-rules-of-thumb-for-mongodb-schema-design-part-2
The idea for partial normalization for faster reads makes great sense but what I can’t understand is how to implement such a pattern. Everything I’ve read about atomic updates says that mongo is no good at them, yet here we have a simple case where if one update goes through and the other does not, the data will be completely out of sync. If I wanted to use this pattern in my schema design how would I properly implement it to ensure data integrity? I’ve seen this article but it seems WAY to complex for what I want to obtain with simple normalization: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/perform-two-phase-commits/