Why Magento use EAV database model?

Related questions

1. Why is DDT harmful to Osprey?
2. Is DDT still used in Canada?
3. What is domain class in Entity Framework?
4. What is domain C#?
5. What is domain and Codomain?
6. What is common domain model?
7. How does DDT enter human body?
8. What is entity and attribute?
9. What is embeddable in hibernate?
10. What is a domain set?

Tags

1. #traditional
2. #system
3. #attributes
4. #objects
5. #because
6. #other
7. #modeled
8. #entity
9. #words
10. #store
11. #relational
12. #model
13. #different
14. #magento
15. #built
16. #being
17. #engineers
18. #mysql
19. #database
20. #product