Once you have your data in XML, a world of opportunities and tools (both client side and server side) are open to you. Phillip Perkins is a contractor with Ajilon Consulting. His experience ranges ...

Dare you question that we're heading for an XML world? For conclusive evidence, look no further than the staid, slow-moving world of relational database management, which is embracing XML as its own.

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an XML database? XML databases use XML to model and query data. XML is a ...

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 this ...

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 for ...

As SQL and XML capabilities converge in the leading relational engines, you might conclude that there’s no future for dedicated XML databases. A year ago, in his keynote at the InfoWorld CTO Forum, ...

The design and implementation trade-offs within a native XML database make a significant impact on the performance, scalability and features available to applications that use it. This article focuses ...

The leading Web standards group has released ten draft XML specifications intended to make the Web perform more like a database. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published updates to a group of ...

Ten years is a long time in IT. But in the world of database systems, a ten year old technology is barely out of kindergarten. Relational databases took a decade to move from the labs to ...

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eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. As XML becomes an increasingly important data interchange ...