Going Native, Part 2 (O'Reilly)

[Posted April 20, 2005 by cook]

Ronald Bourret continues his O'Reilly series on native XML databases with part two. "The second major use of native XML databases is data integration. XML is well-suited to data integration because of its flexible data model and machine-neutral text format. In addition, XQuery is a good data integration language because of its ease of use, support for transformations, and ability to join data from different documents (data sources). Finally, there are a large number of tools for converting data from various formats to XML."

Going Native, Part 2 (O'Reilly)

Posted Apr 29, 2005 14:47 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]

We have a perfectly good, fundamentally sound data model, the relational one. We're starting to get good implementations such as Alphora Dataphor to leave behind the SQL disaster. Now free software won't be taken seriously by people who grok data until it ceases to hype snake oil such as this.