title: rdbms tables to couchdb database tables
body: <p>We are creating a new web application and we intend to use CouchDB. The old web application is being rewritten and we are migrating from RDBMS to CouchDB.  I have a RDBMS schema with 10+ tables and I want to recreate the same in CouchDB. Which is better approach to do this in CouchDB? </p>
  
  <p>Options</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Create a new database in CouchDB for every table in my RDBMS schema</p></li>
  <li><p>Create only one database in CouchDB and store all RDBMS tables into this CouchDB, having an explicit column called doc_type/table_type to represent which table/row type it represents in RDBMS table.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>What are the pros and cons of these approaches? What is the recommended approach?</p>