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Add EAV antipattern to database docs

Max Orefice requested to merge mo-add-eav-database-antipattern-to-docs into master

What does this MR do?

This MR adds a section to our database documentation about the EAV antipattern.

This was brought up on a discussion with @abrandl !25199 (comment 307886442).

I did not know about this pattern, so maybe others will learn about it if we start to document it.

This is still a WIP MR that we will need to iterate on it. @abrandl as I'm not an expert with database do you think this would be helpful to other folks? If yes, could you help me to write down what readers need to be aware of when looking at this page? 🙏

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