[Pipet Devel] dbXML

[Lapointe, David]

Along these lines, this may be of interest.

http://www.w3.org/XML/RDB.html

David Lapointe
Manager - Research Computing Services
UMass Medical School
Worcester, MA 01655
508/856-5141


> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.W. Bizzaro [mailto:bizzaro at bc.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 12:14 PM
> To: pipet-devel
> Subject: [Pipet Devel] dbXML
> 
> 
> Locians,
> 
> I found an announcement for the dbXML project at Freshmeat.  
> This appears to be
> what we were discussing a short while ago: If we're using all 
> XML for our data,
> why not use an XML-based database?  Well, we weren't aware of 
> any at the time. 
> Here's the announcement (Justin, is this guy related to you?):
> 
>    dbXML project now online
>    Tom Bradford - July 22nd 1999, 04:55 EST 
> 
>    The dbXML project is a development effort with the ultimate goal of
>    producing a high-performance client/server DBMS for XML-based
>    structured documents. Overall, the theory is that you 
> could speed up
>    database retrieval incredibly if you did not have to join tables
>    constantly to retrieve structured data. So many programs 
> are written
>    to import and export tabular query results to and from XML that it
>    seems like somewhat of a useless step. Why not just store entire
>    structured documents as single entities and retrieve whole 
> or partial
>    documents with simple SQL queries? This is the goal of the dbXML
>    project. The project is only a little more than one week old and is
>    actively looking for talented volunteer contributors. 
> 
  http://www.dbxml.org

They are looking for help.  Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone here.


:-)
Jeff
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