Re: Qs re EAV

"kj" <socyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> From a reply by --CELKO-- to another post of mine I learned that
> the data I'm working with is a poor fit for RDBMSs, and is better
> captured with an Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) model. (I.e. I'm
> working with a huge number of entities, and a huge number of
> potential attributes that these entities can have, but any one
> entity has relatively few attributes.)
>
> Does anyone know of off-the-shelf software to manage data organized
> according to the EAV model?
>
> Also, I am interested in any theoretical analysis of EAV, and also
> in design tricks to minimize as much as possible the shortcomings
> of RDBMS for representing this kind of data.
>
> Any leads on any of these questions would be much appreciated.

Check out:

http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

> Thanks!

You're welcome.

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