From: Tom Corcoran <tomnospamcorcoran@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T23:47:16+09:00
Subject: Re: XML DBMS?

Phil,

Thanks for the link. I haven't been able to connect to the papermountain
server yet to check out Mnemonic. Hopefully it'll be back up soon.

Most of the relational database providers have now added on to deal with xml
but it seems pure xml dbms's using xmlpath as the query language instead of
translating via sql are in their infancy. FYI, there is an article
www.eaijournal.com/PDF/StoringXMLChampion.pdf
"Storing XML in databases" that goes into XML DBMS's.

Judging from the response to the post so far it seems there are not many
people experienced in doing this yet.

Regards, Tom.

> I have to admit, I'm not sure what an XML DBMS is (a DBMS that uses XML as
> it's internal inforation representation format?).
>
> Maybe this isn't what you're looking for, but Mnemonic is said to provide
> DBMS functionality but without a DBMS.  It's said to be faster and easier
> to use than a DBMS as well and to top it off it's all Ruby.  See:
>
> http://www.papermountain.org/twiki/bin/view/Stuff/MnemonicHome
>
> Perhaps it would work for you in conjuction with some of the Ruby XML
> modules.
>
> Phil