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Databases

James Barrett
James Barrett
13,253 Points
Posted by James Barrett
James Barrett
13,253 Points

Database schema for a social networking project; need some advice!

Hi there,

I am creating an ERD to get a graphical view of my database, here is what I have so far:

https://i.gyazo.com/27956e90df0de5616cc74cce8fa13f35.png

My question is, what is the best practice for storing comments and likes in a post? Should these be completely different tables? I read in a blog once that normalizing a database for the web can be horrible for querying; what's the best approach to this?

(Ignore the Lift part, that's more specific to what the project actually is)

Thanks, James.

1 Answer

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

Here's a StackOverflow article you might find interesting: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8112831/implementing-comments-and-likes-in-database

And here's another re Facebook: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19400622/database-structure-of-facebook-to-store-comments-and-post

There's also a thread on StackExchange: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/215613/database-model-for-keeping-track-of-likes-shares-comments-on-blog-posts-over-tim

Plus another 940,000 pages if you google best way to store comments and likes in a database