It is not what a relational database does (see another's reply on row-oriented vs column-oriented storage), but you miss the fact that this is fundamental for d

It is not what a relational database does (see another's reply on row-oriented vs column-oriented storage), but you miss the fact that this is fundamental for data locality in an application. See, for example, this article on game design: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/data-locality.html http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/data-locality.html