As indispensable as computers are in electronics design, they have too often failed in this context to support long-term business objectives. To date, there has been scarcely little effort to ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an XML database? XML databases use XML to model and query data. XML is a ...

Ten years is a long time in IT. But in the world of database systems, a ten year old technology is barely out of kindergarten. Relational databases took a decade to move from the labs to ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is quickly becoming the de facto standard for exchanging corporate data via structured documents--whether internally, with business partners, or via public ...

Attention in the wide universe of databases and content management has been drawn lately to XML and, specifically, XML databases. You’ll get a good indication of the state of XML-based content ...

When the Classwell Learning Group began building a database of online lesson plans and other information for teachers, it needed to store and access content ranging from word processing files to copy ...

In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...