August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
11h 23m
English
book
XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language
by Howard Katz - Editor, Don Chamberlin, Denise Draper, Mary Fernández, Michael Kay, Jonathan Robie, Michael Rys, Jérôme Siméon, Jim Tivy, Philip Wadler
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Chapter 8. A Native XML DBMS
Jim Tivy
The term “native XML database” is not a precise technical term, and different people define it in different ways. Essentially, it refers to a database designed specifically for the storage and retrieval of XML documents, and the term is used to contrast such a system with a database that merely provides an XML interface to data whose intrinsic data model is something different. In the early days of relational databases, every database vendor tried to jump on the relational bandwagon by selling their old products with a new relational veneer. The relational purists responded with a set of criteria that distinguished a true relational database from one that was merely dressed up to look like one.
The thinking ...