Is dbXML suitable for our project?

[Ross Gardler]

We are currently nearing the end of a development using teXtML. 
Unfortunatley we have hit a problem with this database that makes it 
completely unworkable in our system. Ixiasoft (the company behind 
textML) are working on a solution but in the meantime we are looking at 
alternatives.

Our requirements are for a medium sized XML database containing around 2 
Million documents, giving a total of around 50 million nodes. The 
largest documents will have around 50 nodes and be around 1Mb in size. 
We expect the size of the database to grow by around 20% year on year 
for at least the next five years then growth will slow.

We currently have 50 users making changes to the database 
simultaneously, this is likely to grow to around 100 over the coming 
year. There are also a further 100 or so users reading the database at 
any one time.

Since this is a commercial project (due for roll out in around two 
months) my concern is simple. Can dbXML cope with this workload?

Ross Gardler