Data Modeling

Data Modeling

Markdown (Astro Content Collections)

---
title: "Post title"
author: "Jane"
tags: ["astro", "ssg"]
published: true
---

Content here

defineCollection({
schema: z.object({
title: z.string(),
tags: z.array(z.string())
  })
})

Characteristics

• Flat, file-based
• Limited relations
• Compile-time validation
• Simple mental model

---

CMS (Sanity / Contentful)

{
title:string
author:reference(User)
categories:reference(Category[])
seo: {
    title,
    description,
    image
  }
}

Characteristics

• Deep relationships
• Graph-like content
• Rich blocks (portable text)
• Runtime filtering & queries