To pick the right database, you need to analyze the structure of your data and the operations you intend to perform on it.
XML is a useful general format for interchange of serialized data, but just because you have some data represented in XML doesn't mean you should store it in XML. What is the structure of the data? What will you do with it? Why is a relational database or a object database a bad choice for your application?
Technologies for creating rich GUIs in unmodified web browsers are just starting to catch on. If you want to build a desktop-like UI for a web application, you might want to start with one of the emerging client-server web presentation layers like (blatant self promotion) Isomorphic SmartClient.
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To pick the right database, you need to analyze the structure of your data and the operations you intend to perform on it. XML is a useful general format for interchange of serialized data, but just because you have some data represented in XML doesn't mean you should store it in XML. What is the structure of the data? What will you do with it? Why is a relational database or a object database a bad choice for your application?
Tedious, yes.
Difficult, yes.
But once someone has figured it out and componentized it, you don't have to.
Take a look at the latest rich GUI web presentation layers, like Isomorphic SmartClient.
Technologies for creating rich GUIs in unmodified web browsers are just starting to catch on. If you want to build a desktop-like UI for a web application, you might want to start with one of the emerging client-server web presentation layers like (blatant self promotion) Isomorphic SmartClient.