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Comment by lxdesk

5 years ago

ECS is useful for real-time, but it means that you are rolling your own query logic. This is fine for the runtime of game engines because they generally aren't dealing with that many data types(for the very most complex AAA games, perhaps a few hundred components) and the queries used at runtime are simple and tend to demand optimization at the data structure level.

If your purpose is an editing tool you may want to reconsider. Editing changes the goal in a very substantial way and the complexity of your queries goes way up, which is where SQL syntax absolutely shines.

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TeMPOraL  5 years ago

FWIW, a game I'm writing uses in-memory SQLite as its ECS, mostly because I wanted to see if I could. SQLite is surprisingly performant. My game is not realtime, but I tested it, and I could actually redraw the screen at 60+ FPS while querying for render data every frame, and I still had lots of frame time to spare.