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> Being a newbie to the group I have what I consider a > burning question, but has probably already been hashed out. If someone would > point me in the right direction I would be quite appreciative. Basically I need to > make some decisions regarding my position on Repositories for XML data, > specifically Computer Based Training developed in XML. There will be thousands of courses > residing in the repository, served up world wide. > My initial position was to go with an Object Database, in particular > something built around a solution like POETS Content Management System. However, > there have been many individuals that dislike this idea, and balk at the idea of > leaving the safety of the well know RDBMS community. We've made this journey and learnt quite a few lessons from it. We were using an object database (an early version of Jasmine), but after a couple of years we reverted to relational databases. The reasons: - people were storing data in very fine-grained form and it took ages to reassemble for display. It's better to store the data relatively coarse-grained and split it up (by parsing) when you need to. - we hit a skills bottleneck, there were only a few gurus who understood the technology - the class library was getting ridiculously complex, we weren't achieving enough re-use across different projects to justify the generality of the infrastructure - we hit immaturity problems with the technology (e.g. lack of low-level performance monitoring and tuning tools) - the kind of boring things where 20-year-old products like ORACLE really score. Regards, Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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