Jul 15, 2011 · I'm thinking to use an entity-attribute-value (EAV) model for some of the stuff in one of the projects, but all questions about it in Stack Overflow end up to answers calling EAV an anti-pattern. ...

Dec 2, 2023 · Because EAV seems to make database schema design easier, and because that schema design tends to be amongst the first things that are designed in a database application, the severe …

Apr 16, 2016 · In an EAV design, of a relation (aka fields, or columns, of a database table) are taken out of a relation and stored as records in an Attributes tables. The are stored in yet another table that …

Currently I can think of two options: Not using EAV tables and just having single tables for each entity type (posts, pages and events) and having all data (about 15 fields) in the entity table.

EAV EAV is largely frowned upon but seems to work for Magento. But after researching all the headaches it causes I am a bit reluctant to use it Use JSON Columns in MySql 5.7 This is rather new …

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For me, whether you go single-row or EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value) depends on how you want to consume them. EAV's power is that new data can be added with no change to structure.

2 You may want to look at the Entity-Attribute Value design for modeling things that have multiple types of attributes with arbitrary values. I learned about this pattern of design from Magento, an …

I am trying to figure out a better way to decide table storage configurations whether it will use static configurations using tables or dynamic configurations using EAV (entity-attribute-value) When

This system may also require using the dreaded EAV style of data storage, not that there's anything wrong with this technique. There are some caveats associated with getting data from an EAV data …