Suboptimal Solutions

Let’s learn methods to avoid EAV that can be used where inheritance methods cannot be used.

We'll cover the following...

There are two more solutions to model the subtypes that we are going to discuss in this lesson. These are:

  • Semistructured data
  • Post-processing

Semistructured data

If we have many subtypes or if we have to support new attributes frequently, we can add a BLOBbinary large object ...