I'd put XML documents into 2 categories - 1. Data-driven - containing a serialized version of some highly structured business data that might have come out of/be going into a relational DB, but is put in an XML form for standardized transport purposes; 2. Text-driven - where the data is much less structured and the emphasis is more on the markup aspect. Used in content management systems, for example. Seems to me that apps based on the latter sort of XML doc can benefit enormously from a native XML DBMS. You could envisage building an entire content management system without using an RDBMS at all (In fact I've done it with no DBMS of any description, just using XML text files & CF, but I wouldn't recommend it!) But the first sort - more "traditional" apps - can really benefit more from all the advantages that a traditional RDBMS gives you. Maybe I'm wrong & the XML technology is more mature than I think... Surely you will always get better performance from a traditional RDBMS for highly structured data. I believe that the market leading native XML DB is Software AG's Tamino? http://www.softwareag.com/tamino/ Nick -----Original Message----- From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 12:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: SOT: XML db A friend, who's technical expertise I greatly respect (He put me on to CF), has taken over as CEO of a company that makes an XML database engine. My first reaction was "What good is that"? The more I think about it, I can see some real uses and advantages over RDBMS for certain uses. It is written in Java 1.3, as a db server, with a Java API. The API is also accessible as a CORBA object. So far it is not installed anywhere where I can try to access it through CF. It is available as open source for installation on any machine with a stable JDK 1.3 - Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. I am trying to figure where it would be useful vis-a-vis standard RDBMS and the WDDX facilities within CF. Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on this? TIA Dick ********************************************************************** Information in this email is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee only. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. You should not otherwise copy it, retransmit it or use or disclose its contents to anyone. Thank you for your co-operation. ********************************************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
