Hi all,
One of my entities 'E' may be 'tagged' with an arbitrary set of 256 tags 'T'.
A first approach could be to add a M:N relationship between 'E' and 'T'.
A second way to do this could be to add a BIT(256) datatype to 'E',
setting bits to '1' if the entity is tagged with each one of the 256
tags (i.e. using a 'bitmask' on the set of tags).
Since querying entities 'E' with a certain set of tags 'T' must be
very fast I was wondering if the second approach would be faster. What
do you think?
Thanks for any hints,
Antonio
