Comments on: Oracle is getting touchy about XML http://www.dbms2.com/2006/04/06/oracle-is-getting-touchy-about-xml/ Choices in data management and analysis Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:48:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Curt Monash http://www.dbms2.com/2006/04/06/oracle-is-getting-touchy-about-xml/#comment-3546 Curt Monash Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:45:18 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=62#comment-3546 Mark, I find that comment quite surprising and confusing. Would you please explain? If I recall correctly, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft all offer some form of XML shredding. Oracle and Microsoft also offer BLOB/CLOB XML storage, with Microsoft's XML indexing scheme for those CLOBs apparently being more sophisticated than Oracle's. IBM, in lieu of (I think not "in addition to", but I could be wrong) BLOB/CLOB storage, offers a separate-but-integrated engine. What exactly is the nature of the superiority you are claiming for Oracle? CAM Mark,

I find that comment quite surprising and confusing. Would you please explain?

If I recall correctly, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft all offer some form of XML shredding. Oracle and Microsoft also offer BLOB/CLOB XML storage, with Microsoft’s XML indexing scheme for those CLOBs apparently being more sophisticated than Oracle’s. IBM, in lieu of (I think not “in addition to”, but I could be wrong) BLOB/CLOB storage, offers a separate-but-integrated engine.

What exactly is the nature of the superiority you are claiming for Oracle?

CAM

]]> By: Mark Drake http://www.dbms2.com/2006/04/06/oracle-is-getting-touchy-about-xml/#comment-3545 Mark Drake Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:56:19 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=62#comment-3545 The whole point is performance does matter. And one binary storage model for XML (IBM, MSFT etc) cannot deliver the flexibility required to ensure that your XML application will perform. There are so many different ways in which XML is used by applicaitons that the only way to ensure that theses application perform is for the database vendor to offer multiple storage models. Oracle is the only vendor to offer that. The whole point is performance does matter. And one binary storage model for XML (IBM, MSFT etc) cannot deliver the
flexibility required to ensure that your XML application will perform. There are so many different ways in which XML is
used by applicaitons that the only way to ensure that theses application perform is for the database vendor to offer
multiple storage models. Oracle is the only vendor to offer that.

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