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Re: Fwd: XML Server
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Hannes Haug wrote:
> Falko Braeutigam wrote:
> >
> > But there is a small"but". SoftwareAG, a german database company, has been
> > providing its database software for 20+ years I think. So they seem to be very
> > experienced with database development. They never started an OODBMS - but the
> > _have_ a XML server called tamino. (somewhere at http://www.softwareag.com)
> > So SQL is indeed the wrong choice but maybe not the whole relational thing.
>
> Tamino is at http://www.softwareag.com/tamino
> Software AG doesn't have an OODBMS, but their "real" product,
> Adabas (http://www.softwareag.com/adabas), is a hirarchical
> database not a relational one.
Hmm... IMO I did neither say that adabas is an oodbms nor that tamino is based
on an RDBMS (see Erics mail). All I wanted to say is that there are other ways
to efficently store XML besides OODBMSs (ozone).
> I think that there is SQL for Adabas. So relational databases
> are indeed the wrong choice but maybe not the whole SQL thing? ;-)
To store XML SQL and relational databases are the wrong choice. Do we agree
here? :)
Falko
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