If ORs are expensive you've probably got a poor table design or the ORs are for some form of nasty query that is more UI/Dashboard based. A good table has the

If ORs are expensive you've probably got a poor table design or the ORs are for some form of nasty query that is more UI/Dashboard based. A good table has the right indexes, and a good API to deal with the table is using the RIGHT indexes in it's criteria to get a good result.