Re: XML or a relational Database ?

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Leonardo B Lopes wrote:

> DISCLAIMER: Just throwing ideas up in the air. I'll read the two papers
> Carlos and Akmal mentioned, and maybe change my view, but here it goes:
>
> How about the case in which you access most of your data sequentially,
> you write once but read many, there are a lot of data and you don't want
> to deal with Memory Management issues? That is the situation I am in
> now, and I am using an RDB to get around the MM. But the XML libraries
> (I naively assume) have pretty sophisticated MM built into them, so that
> may be an option.

Leonardo:

The DB should be able to do some things for you, but I'm not very familiar with XML libraries and what they might offer. What about something like streaming the data out of the DB? Would that work for your case?

KR

akmal

>
> Florian Barbera wrote:
> >
> > Hi !
> >
> > what would you be, according to you, the situation where you would use XML
> > files (with a XML server if we need it) instead of a relational Database ?
> >
> > Thanks !
> >
> > Florian
>
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