Hi everybody,
in the XML databases field you should also take into account eXist
(http://exist.sourceforge.net/) database. It can work both in embedded and
server modes.
Best Regards,
José María
On 01/08/10 15:36, Paolo Missier wrote:
> Hi Jerzy
>
> you can certainly go down the RDF route, as others here have suggested,
> and I even vaguely understand the infatuation with RDF as a panacea for
> all data modelling problems (<grin>), but to answer your specific
> questions, XML DBs are quite mature and XQuery is efficient enough. One
> DBMS we could use is Apache's Xindice http://xml.apache.org/xindice/,
> with a Java API, and there's plenty of XQuery engines available (Saxon
> is a good one: http://saxon.sourceforge.net/).
>
> There are also quite a few Java libs for interfacing with XQuery
>
> -Paolo
>
>> Paolo Missier wrote:
>>> Hi Jerzy,
>>>> - serialize a workflow into and from SQL (with all information it
>>>> contains) in a manner independent on workflow format as much as
>>>> possible
>>>> - serialize workflow inputs and outputs in the same way as workflows
>>>> (XML<-->Java<-->SQL) and converting them to be compatible with T1
>>>> and T2 API
>>> if query functionality is what you are after, then I would just use a
>>> native XML DB with XQuery as query language. Not?
>>>
>>> cheers, -Paolo
>>
>> 1. I have never done it before and would need help
>> - which database to choose
>> - how to make the serialization / deserialization
>> - which libraries to choose in which language
>> 2. How does performance of such databases look like? Do they have a
>> proper indexing or do queries just go through all documents?
>>
>> George
>
>
>
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