Is it ok to do this in MongoDB?

Question

NoSQL

How to store order status in MongoDB (processing, canceled, completed)? I can't recover from relational sickness, I just want to create a collection of Statuses and do something like a foreign key in the order document.
Is it ok if I store the status as a regular string (like "cancelled")?

Answer 1

Yes, it's normal, now such volumes do not particularly affect the load (there are exceptions for bigdata / highload), development speed is now more important.
You need to think about the database differently - you need the ability to put data into the database, and quickly get it safely + some features. And it doesn't matter what's under the "hood", tables, heaps, columns ... you need to look at the features and characteristics.
And normalization is already in many cases not justified; The average project will use both normalization and denormalization together, depending on the task.