I have several custom entities, about 8.
Each contains information about a given subset of data.
Currently, this is being created by filling 8 different tables with data from an API and exposing it to Drupal with Views and making them custom entities.
I'm wondering - is it best practices to have each as a custom entity, or should they be made into node bundles?
One of the entities either has to have a relationship with a taxonomy term as well - either with the taxonomy term having multiple entity references to the custom entities, or making the custom entity fieldable and adding multiple taxonomy terms to it. This would be used to organize one of the custom entities.
So I guess I'm asking two architectural questions here - when is it best practice to put content into nodes, and when is it best practices to put it into custom entities? Should you make an entity a child of a taxonomy term, or make taxonomy terms children of other entities? I'm not seeing any information about how to make big architectural decisions like this. It seems like there would be a relatively straight-forward argument for one and only one architectural choice in these use-cases.
Excuse me if this is simple data architecting - I'm self-trained and never took computer science in college, so this may be easier to others than it is to me.
