Renà Peinl wrote:
With the integration of XML features in relational databases it seems obvious to me, that XML databases will go the same way that object oriented databases did. Their importance diminished and today hardly anybody uses them.
While Oracle is still telling the world that shredding XML documents, storing them in tables, rows and columns, and putting them back together again, IBM instead is developing a parallel native XML database for its DB2 (http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/3455461).
Sure a sign how important XML has become in the meantime. Big industry is always prone to avoid a change of direction unless it has become simply unavoidable - as it is happening with the offer of native XML databases now.
So if an XML database connection should make it into OO than I would recommend to introduce it only as an option, not as mandatory element.
The eXist database they've chosen is one of the most simple and stable XML databases to date, which could be put to work for hundreds of other uses, too.
I only hope that some day we can store our OOo documents, too, directly in the database, something Tamino offers Staroffice customers as an ad-on today - but at a price
(http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=40628&de=1
http://developer.softwareag.com/tamino/staroffice/default.htm).
Best wishes,
and success to the project!
-- klaus e. werner | áÎÎÏ áÎÏ ÎÎÏÏ ÎáÎ ÎÎá áÏÏÎ
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