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there was recently a short discussion about JSON in DB and most (i think) of us are against it
here is the thread (scroll down a bit): https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/laravel-search-in-other-table-on-json-column-by-relation
and here is a link from Tray to a blog post that covers the topic: https://tray2.se/posts/database-design