As organizations begin to employ XML within their information-management and exchange strategies, data management issues pertaining to storage, retrieval, querying, indexing, and manipulation increasingly arise. Moreover, new information-modeling challenges also appear. XML Data Managementwith its contributions from experts at the forefront of the XML fieldaddresses these key issues and challenges, offering insights into the advantages and drawbacks of various XML solutions, best practices for modeling information with XML, and developing custom, in-house solutions.
In this book, you will find discussions on the newest native XML databases, along with information on working with XML-enabled relational database systems. In addition, XML Data Management thoroughly examines benchmarks and analysis techniques for performance of XML databases.
Topics covered include:*The power of good grammar and style in modeling information to alleviate the need for redundant domain knowledge
*Tamino's XML storage, indexing, querying, and data access features
*The features and APIs of open source eXist
*Berkeley DB XML's ability to store XML documents natively
*IBM's DB2 Universal Database and its support for XML applications
*Xperanto's method of addressing information integration requirements
*Oracle's XMLType for managing document centric XML documents
*Microsoft SQL Server 2000's support for exporting and importing XML data
*A generic architecture for storing XML documents in a relational database
*X007, XMach-1, XMark, and other benchmarks for evaluating XML database performance
*Numerous case studies demonstrate real-world problems, industry-tested solutions, and creative applications of XML data management solutions.
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