Dr. Henrik Loeser

(IBM Software Group)

"XML Storage - It's the Flexibility, Stupid!"

XML is widely used because of its flexibility, i.e., the ability to change the data representation without too much impact to applications. Is this really true when XML documents are stored in a database? In our presentation we will first describe different application scenarios for XML in the database and look at the requirements. Thereafter, we will take a look a high-level look at how different database vendors have addressed the problem of XML storage, before discussing details of DB2 pureXML storage.



Zeit: Montag, 17.11.2008, 17.15 Uhr
Ort: Gebäude 48, Raum 210