One of the more pressing problems is how to store and manage XML data. “There are really three ways you can do this,” says John Matranga, CTO of Omicron Consulting, in Philadelphia.

The good news is that the four leading relational databases, namely Oracle Database, IBM DB2, Sybase ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise), and Microsoft SQL Server, not only can store XML data, but ...

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.

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 ...