• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'David Megginson'" <david.megginson@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:31:14 -0000

> > *cough*While I love XML as everybody else on this mail list,  HUGE 
> > perfomances problems that ask for hardware can be a sign on the sky 
> > some people is using XML where a relational database can be
> > better*cough*

Well I've had someone recently complaining(!) that Saxon takes 15 minutes to
process their 15 Gbyte XML file, and that was my reaction too. But I think
they are actually taking a real-time data feed and selecting the data they
want to put in the database, which seems a reasonable approach.

What I don't know is how much they would be prepared to pay for a solution
that processed the same file in 1 minute. That's the test. 

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

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: When parsing speed matters (was Re: No XMLBinaries? Buy Hardware)
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>

• References:
  • Re: When parsing speed matters (was Re: No XML Binaries? Buy Hardware)
    • From: "David Megginson" <david.megginson@g...>