Attention in the wide universe of databases and content management has been drawn lately to XML and, specifically, XML databases. You’ll get a good indication of the state of XML-based content ...

XML databases can handle data of just about any size or format. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics.

A database that stores XML documents. There are two types. The first is the "XML-enabled database," which is a relational or object-oriented database that has been extended to hold XML data. In ...

One of the more pressing problems is how to store and manage XML data. “There are really three ways you can do this,” says John Matranga, CTO of Omicron Consulting, in Philadelphia.

I examined these four areas in Oracle Database 10g, IBM DB2 Universal Database V8.1, Sybase ASE 12.5.1, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. I tested how they imported and read XML files, their options ...

Innovations 2006 Analysis: Used to be, friends didn't let friends use stored procedures and triggers. Wisdom was, databases were just those boring, clunky old things used to crunch numbers and ...

Use XML as a local data store Starting with the easiest part of your question first, what format do you use to store the data in? You mention XML files—and I would wholeheartedly agree with this.

A native XML database--implemented on the middle tier, usually along side an application server--would allow you to process XML translations for billing, payment, ordering, and product shipment on ...

XML also makes it easier to change the type or format of data stored in a database, says Jake Freivald, director of marketing at iWay Software, a division of New York-based Information Builders ...

Simplify XML Data Validation. The second-generation .NET Framework builds on the tools of the first to provide better, more standards-compliant XML data validation. By Thiru Thangarathinam; 04/01/2005 ...

Several SQL-to-XML conversion and translation tools are available. The Enterprise and Professional versions of the XMLSpy products from Altova.com can produce an XML schema from a relational database.

These are databases that store native XML documents alongside SQL data, rather than attempting to ‘squeeze’ the XML data into relational formats (see box). “The hybrid database completely changes the ...