• To: "'Ronald Bourret'" <rpbourret@r...>,"'Ken North'" <kennorth@s...>
• Subject: RE: XML-enabled databases, XQuery APIs
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:32:01 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <42601229.3020309@r...>
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> I think this sums things up nicely and also matches the degree of 
> implementation difficulty. One also shouldn't discount the utility of 
> the simpler storage mechanisms -- there's always applications 
> for which they are sufficient.

Yes: important point. I've seen applications that needed to store 100,000
XML documents and retrieve them by a simple key value. That's too many to
handle comfortably in filestore, and good-old-ISAM files don't seem to be
available in the things that pass for operating systems these days, so an
RDBMS, while grossly over-engineered for the job, is probably the right
answer.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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