Entity Attribute Value Database vs. strict Relational Model Ecommerce

Question

It is safe to say that the EAV/CR database model is bad. That said,

Question: What database model, technique, or pattern should be used to deal with \"clas

Answer 1

I still vote for modeling at the lowest-meaningful atomic-level for EAV. Let standards, technologies and applications that gear toward certain user community to decide content models, repetition needs of attributes, grains, etc.