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		Dowwie on June 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eva – A distributed entity-attribute-value databas... EAV is generally an anti-pattern. How does Eva break away from its long, dark history?

lukev on June 28, 2019 | [–]

I reject the premise of your statement. It's only a failure when implemented on top of relational databases which are (obviously) not optimized for it.

What are the failures of EAV except when applying it to a database optimized for something different?

perfmode on June 28, 2019 | [–]

Build Facebook on it, I suppose.

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