Entity–Attribute–Value (EAV) Model
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An Entity–Attribute–Value (EAV) Model is a data metamodel that ...
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2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity–attribute–value_model Retrieved:2020-3-31.
- Entity–attribute–value model (EAV) is a data model to encode, in a space-efficient manner, entities where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that can be used to describe them is potentially vast, but the number that will actually apply to a given entity is relatively modest. Such entities correspond to the mathematical notion of a sparse matrix.
EAV is also known as object–attribute–value model, vertical database model, and open schema.
- Entity–attribute–value model (EAV) is a data model to encode, in a space-efficient manner, entities where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that can be used to describe them is potentially vast, but the number that will actually apply to a given entity is relatively modest. Such entities correspond to the mathematical notion of a sparse matrix.