Vertical Data Store
March 5th, 2008 . by Henry
Vertical data stores a different, dynamic logic on the application layer and the UI. Because the data can be stored as the key/value pairs in only two columns and it is tied together in a logical form by a unique id, there’s no limitation on how many fields can be in a form. Subsequently, each of the logical rows in vertical table can have various numbers of fields. Therefore, the largest advantage of the vertical data organization is its flexibility, but there are still numerous disadvantages. With flexibility, the control over of data is lost, which means the data normalization is very hard thing to maintain.
