This NoSQL stuff has me confused. I didn't think those systems were considered relational.
Why does one need an object-relational mapper?
Why does one need an object-relational mapper?
user:1000
That is an hash with a few attributes, and among this attribs you can have 'group_id", that is an integer, for instance 50. Then if you access group:50
You have another data structure representing the group the user is associated with.