Re: kind of a bag of attributes in a DB . . .

On 9/7/19 5:45 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> Say, you get lots of data and their corresponding metadata, which in
> some cases may be undefined or undeclared (left as an empty string).
> Think of youtube json files or the result of the "file" command.
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> I need to be able to "instantly" search that metadata and I think DBs
> are best for such jobs and get some metrics out of it.

Is the metadata uniform or are you dealing with a variety of different data?

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> I know this is not exactly a kosher way to deal with data which can't
> be represented in a nice tabular form, but I don't find the idea that
> half way off either.
>
> What is the pattern, anti-pattern or whatever relating to such design?
>
> Do you know of such implementations with such data?
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> lbrtchx
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