XML-native database systems are database systems whose internal data representation is XML-compliant. They store and retrieve XML documents and support query languages like XPath and XQuery. XML-native databases emerged as XML became a widely accepted standard for data exchange on the internet due to its open nature and ability to define custom data structures within documents.
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Object Oriented Database With XML
XML-native database systems are database systems whose internal data representation is XML-compliant. They store and retrieve XML documents and support query languages like XPath and XQuery. XML-native databases emerged as XML became a widely accepted standard for data exchange on the internet due to its open nature and ability to define custom data structures within documents.
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Raldy Henry Almonte
Advanced Database Systems
MIT
XML (Object Oriented Database)
XML Native Database Systems There is no broadly accepted definition what XM Native database exactly mean. Using and understanding of this term can therefore very differ by individual authors and communities. For example, XML database is defined as a system which simply provides XML API and therefore enables to process XML documents.
Database system is a system, which enables a mass data processing it
provides operations store and retrieve. Typically it also provides data consistency, redundancy multiuser access, and crash recovery mechanisms. XML database system is a database system which provides storing and retrieving XML document. Typically a query language like XPath or XQuery are supported. XML native database systems are XML database systems whose inner data representation is XML compliant.
Why XML database systems? Their appearance is a consequence of evolution of
internet technologies and also the success of XML standard which was posted in 1998 by W3C consortium and accepted by IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). The main reasons of XML success are:
XML is open international standard
User can define him/her-self which data and in which structure have to be stored; the data and structural information are stored together in one document.