Technically English allows the same, only that compound words are separated by spaces instead of either concatenated or joined with hyphens.
data base
data-base
databaseNo, and that's the point.
The fact that the grammar of the language allows strings of nouns to form compound nouns (e.g. a "River Steamboat Captain" feels natural to me) is unique and interesting, and shared by English. In Spanish, for example, you'd need prepositions/conjunctions to express that concept.
The fact that if you were to write this down, you'd leave out the spaces, is just a weird quirk of the written system, and independent of the language itself.
Passenger emergency intercom unit at end of car
Sistema de intercomunicación para pasajeros en caso de emergencia situado al extremo del tren
There are several things going on there that make the Spanish longer than the English, but one is the obligatory use of explicit prepositions relating the nouns to one another in Spanish. In English terms, the Spanish says
System of intercommunication for passengers in case of emergency situated at the end of the train
See also this list written up by John Cowan of some languages that do noun-noun compounding and what the implicit meanings of such compounds can be:
http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com/2009/12/noun-noun-comp...
Notice that not all types of compounds are understood in every language, even for languages that sometimes allow this!