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A relational DB can store data however it wants, including columnar formats. The interface presented to the programmer (SQL) just abstracts away the details. E
by sparkie 4y ago
A relational DB can store data however it wants, including columnar formats. The interface presented to the programmer (SQL) just abstracts away the details.
ECS are more similar to the relational model than OOP is, and do not necessarily suffer the same 'object–relational impedance mismatch'.
- robertlagrant 4y agoI'm pretty sure a relational DB stores data per-row in a table, whereas columnar databases store data per-column. I don't know how using SQL (or not) affects this.