Hello, I'M struggling to design my database. There are many types

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Hello, I'M struggling to design my database. There are many types

of financial transactions and each is stored in its own table. When it comes to calculating user's balance I realized it was a big mess as I needed to select many different non consistent rows from multiple tables and add them all up. So I thought what if I create a single table that would summarize the transaction (for example amount and user id who owns it) and reference a more detailed record and have a field to specify what kind of transaction it is. As it turned out: the thing that I was trying to implement is called 'polymorphic associations' and there's no way to implement it with mySQL in a reliable way. There are some workarounds but none of them guarantee the data integrity on the level I want it to be. At the end I got so desperate that I started looking at other DBMSs but none of them seem to fit my case as well.

Do you have any recommendations? Perhaps, should I not be afraid of writing large and growing functions for calculating users' balances? Or should I go with the best option of modelling polymorphic associations in MySQL and leave a slight risk of data inconsistency? Or maybe there are DBSMs that can solve my problem without workarounds?

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25.10.2019

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Fayaz Khan

What's the inconsistency problem that you're running into?

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26.10.2019

Ludovic 'Archivist' Lagouardette

Polymorphism in RDBMS is mostly unimplemented in most major databases as I think it is currently not supported by the SQL language. This is the kind of thing that may either require either a good amount of voluntary bad design, a document based database with correct acid semantics or a domain specific DBMS

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26.10.2019

Ibrahim Ngeno · Accepted Answer

Ibrahim Ngeno

postgreSQL?

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26.10.2019

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