In the same way. A database is basically just a giant data structure, a table is not unlike a B-Tree (in some engines it literally is a B-tree). Data warehouses

In the same way. A database is basically just a giant data structure, a table is not unlike a B-Tree (in some engines it literally is a B-tree). Data warehouses already do something like this informally, as they are structured in a star schema around a single "append-only" fact table.