Without a doubt, XML is fast becoming the lingua franca of B2B data exchange. As the use of XML increases, executives and IT managers must begin factoring in the growing number and differing types of ...

Relational databases and XML documents are both powerful ways to represent relationships among data, but they’re powerful in different ways. For example, querying on a patient ID number in a ...

With Web services now becoming a viable technology, enterprises are beginning to see real return on investment from this technology. Web services represent a less invasive, less costly, and ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is quickly becoming the de facto standard for exchanging corporate data via structured documents--whether internally, with business partners, or via public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract: Most XML-enabled database management systems can only translate a few relations into an XML document. Moreover, the translation is without data semantics constraints consideration, which may ...

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.

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'm wondering if anyone here has experience working with a native XML database, and at the same time I'm looking for a sanity check on my idea. There are many threads like this, but this one is mine.