This could work, but it would make it impossible to query your data without traversing every record in your DB. If you want to store unstructured data but don'

This could work, but it would make it impossible to query your data without traversing every record in your DB. If you want to store unstructured data but don't want to deal with scaling pains in the future, try looking into hosted solutions. - Compose is pretty great for RethinkDB, Mongo, and ElasticSearch. - Amazon DynamoDB can scale like mad and supports secondary indexes, arbitrary queries, and triggers (through Lambda).