IBM’s native XML storage feature “doesn’t add any value,” said Mark Drake, an XML technology manager at Oracle. Viper will also support XQuery for processing XML data, along with standard SQL.

They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that mission-critical business data that is finding expression in XML format.

The XMLType data type obscures much of the complexity of storing and querying XML data, allowing admins to manipulate the data using familiar SQL tools and concepts.

3. XML storage won’t have the same drawbacks that hierarchical/network products did. Hierarchical systems failed because reusing data in multiple apps was too difficult. Today, however, RDBMS vendors ...

How are you going to manage and store all that XML data? Simple database? Maybe a not-so-simple database. See why a hierarchical structure designed for XML could be a better choice than a ...

IBM and Oracle promise deep XML support in upcoming versions of their databases. With Web services on the rise, Eric Knorr says these solutions could help you get a handle all that XML data.