Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...

The design and implementation trade-offs within a native XML database make a significant impact on the performance, scalability and features available to applications that use it. This article focuses ...

Dare you question that we're heading for an XML world? For conclusive evidence, look no further than the staid, slow-moving world of relational database management, which is embracing XML as its own.