--- title: General strategy for migrating relational data to... description: A practical guide for migrating from relational databases to document-based storage. Covers key differences between relational and document approaches (weak... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/general-strategy-for-migrating-relational-data-to-document-based-q61z32jzd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: General strategy for migrating relational data to document-based | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide for migrating from relational databases to document-based storage. Covers key differences between relational and document approaches (weak... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/general-strategy-for-migrating-relational-data-to-document-based-q61z32jzd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Q61Z32jZd.png og:image:alt: General strategy for migrating relational data to document-based og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # General strategy for migrating relational data to document-based **[Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz](https://daily.dev/sources/event-driven-io)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide for migrating from relational databases to document-based storage. Covers key differences between relational and document approaches (weak schema, denormalized data), and provides a step-by-step migration strategy: identifying root entities, deciding what to embed vs. reference by ID, setting up batch import processes with background workers, dry-run testing, and comparing data between both databases. Also recommends starting with minimal schema changes, applying the strangler fig pattern for incremental migration, and adding appropriate indexes after the initial migration works. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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