RE: [Cdk-devel] New Codeveloper, new subproject

[Smith, J. (JA) <smi...@do...>]

> Please comment on the paper, especially with respect to the question
> whether on should really still use these painful :-) SQL databases or
> better resort to an object database directly, as long as performance
> permits it. 

Before abandoning a purely relational DB (which some can not do for various
reasons), what about using XML-formatted LOBs in a relational DB for those
ojects that do not easily map to simple tables.  One can then use XPATH
expressions on the XML entities as an extension of SQL.  It would also allow
for a much greater degree of freedom in altering/extending the low-level
"schema" (the XML shema) without affecting the DB schema. One could also use
XSL stylesheets to format the XML part of the result sets.   It would be
really cool if one could create a ODBMS-like wrapper around this mechanism
to hide it.  One could then slide in a real ODBMS if they so chose.

Oracle is already headed in this direction.

- Jack

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