Many thanks, Joel. now i'm understand what cake's design for ... Great reference with magento. i have tried it before..
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Joel Perras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe what you are referring to is the entity-attribute-value data > model (sometimes referred to as the object-attribute-value model): > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-Attribute-Value_model > This database model is actually used in Magento, an open-source > eCommerce PHP framework. > > This is a highly specialized DB model that aims to solve problems > caused by data-sparseness that is common to eCommerce, whereby you > have many products (entities), each with different subsets of > attributes and corresponding values. > > Cake was never designed to solve this problem, and is thus not well > suited for this type of implementation; however, Cake does not enforce > a specific DB design principle on you. You will lose many of the > features that make Cake an attractive choice for development (ie. Auth > component, ACL, etc.), but implementing an EAV DB design is > nonetheless possible. > > Just don't ask me to do it. > > -J. > > On Sep 22, 3:42 pm, "Yodi Aditya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you give some reason why vertical database is bad and horrible? > > This is one of many ebook i have read before (in attachment) > > the title is "Storage and querying of E-commerce data" - IBM Almaden > > Research Center. > > > > Google Big Table using vertical database too..(reading from some > article...) > > In my opinion, for big e-commerce, vertical database is right choices. > > > > But, i just wanna know if anybody using vertical database on CakePHP. > > thanks for sharing ... > > > > On 9/22/08, leberle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Sounds like a horrible idea....and bad DB design. > > > If you have your DB in Boyce-Codd normal form, you will never have the > > > need for such a DB layout... > > > > > But let me know about your experience :) > > > > > On Sep 21, 7:23 pm, "Yodi Aditya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have reading about vertical database (column-store) on google last > > > night. > > > > it seem interesting method. > > > > > > Is anybody using vertical database with CakePHP? > > > > Is vertical database good for designing some application using > cakePHP? > > > > > > if someone has vertical database using cakePHP, please let me know.. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > P149.pdf > > 211KViewDownload > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
