I myself would love to see nginxorg to go into another direction, like CloudFlare is currently doing, taking advantages of their expertise in serving http and stuff. That way, Nginx Plus will be more of an addon service, a complement to nginxorg instead of an alternative. On the other hand, I’m always tempted at checking out tengine for its dynamic module loading support. I now have one more reason to do so.

In short: Every “noun” gets its own table. “many to many” relationship get their own tables “one to many” relationship require the table that “owns” another table have its id in that other table Any time a table has an id that refers to a row in another table, use a foreign key constraint to make sure that id really exists Doing this would probably results in many tables but it would help ensuring the 3NF(every non-key attrib must provide a fact about key, the whole key and nothing but the key) quite easily and go further for 4NF and 5NF - the ultimate, super-uber normal form (Jeez who need 5NF!