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> -----Original Message----- > From: Magick, Brian [mailto:Brian.Magick@C...] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:52 AM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: XML Database Decision Tree? > The responses in this thread have clarified/corrected one point for me: You can do a "bad" table-based data model (one table with lots columns full of mostly null values) of almost anything in Access or whatever as easily as you can do a naive XML data model. I have a gut feeling that the typical developer can do a decent data model in XML more easily than he/she could do a decent normalized RDBMS model, but that's one for the Time Will Tell file. > Now this isn't a new struggle. Data Architecture historically has had > an uphill battle for acceptance, I won't get into the > specifics of that I'd appreciate some pointers to resources on "Data Architecture" and its principles as it relates to XML. It sounds like a discipline that we need, e.g. to address the question of when to model hierarchically and when to model relationally. > In terms of the XML database I think the term database might be bit > misleading (I personally think repository fits better) Hmmm ... I'd say that "repository" implies persistent storage and retrieval by some primary key, some predefined metadata, and maybe brute force search ("grep"). "DBMS" implies that plus more flexible yet efficient queries, transactions, integrity enforcement (whatever that means in XML!), backup/restore utilities, optimization tools ... By that definition, a vanilla WebDAV server is a "repository" whereas the products from the vendors who have participated in this thread are "DBMS". That seems like a distinction worth making.
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