What Do You Know About Databases And XML?

Dare Obasanjo writes: "XML has become a pervasive part of significant segments of software development in a relatively short time. From file formats to network protocols to programming langauges, the influence of XML has been felt. I have written an overview of XML schemas, XML querying languages, XML-Enabled databases and native XML databases. Below is a shortened version of the article." Obasanjo's original OODBMS article has been updated to reflect more of the disadvantages between picking an OODBMS over an RDBMS.

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xml is an interchange format, not a storage format

[TechnoVooDooDaddy]

Databases are for storing data. End of Story.
Oracle is taking some BIGTIME performance hits for stacking all that OO crap in there, and MS SQL Server is seeing the same thing now that they've got the XML in theirs. Don't believe me?
Why is NASA switching to MySQL from Oracle and noticing speed increases?

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of XML.. as a data interchange format.. but when i want tight storage and quick retrieval, give me a normalized RDBMS any day of the week. Because that's what it's for.

RFC (corrected)

[Reality Master 101]

Can we please, please, please append the definition of XML to allow "</>" to close whatever the last tag was?

That simple change would probably cut the size of the average XML file in half.

(corrected post, please moderate my other one down. I have plenty of Karma to spare...)