It's probably ordered by whatever the DBMS finds convenient. In that case it may not even be consistently ordered as items are added to a collection. A relational query doesn't guarantee any particular order; the DBMS is free to arrange and re-arrange its own storage in implementation-dependent ways. I imagine that nobody ever thought of a reason to pay the cost of sorting by adding ORDER BY to the query that produces the stream of items.
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