RE: storing xml files into database

[Chris Parkerson <chrisp@exceloncorp.com>]

Max:

But not functional enough for benchmarking ;->.  They have a 50 MB limit
on the size of the database, a lot of their enterprise features (like
X-Node) are not present, and they have other limitations that make
benchmarking impossible on the Starter Kit (trust me... we tried ;->).
We even tried to BUY a full version of Tamino from them, and they
wouldn't sell to us (are they scared? ;->).  We also ran into two
prospect situations where the customers asked for a competitive
benchmark against Tamino and SoftwareAG walked away when they found out
it was against us (and thus we won the deals ;->).

I believe we (eXcelon) have the most mature product for solving these
problems out there.  But, I'd like someone to prove it... I just don't
think the market is quite large enough yet for the analysts to get
really serious about it.  Hence why we have a Platform solution where
XIS is a part rather than concentrating on making our millions on just
XIS ;->

Cheers,
Chris

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Chris Parkerson
Product Manager
eXcelon Corporation
Burlington, MA
(781) 674-5393
http://www.exceloncorp.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Max Dunn [mailto:maxdunn@siliconpublishing.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:40 PM
To: chrisp; 'Bill Lindsey'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Cc: 'Ron Schmelzer'
Subject: RE: storing xml files into database

An independent benchmark would be great, hopefully by someone other than
ZapThink, as it should be freely available.

Tamino has a pretty great eval version out there,
http://www.xmlstarterkit.com/ : certainly functional enough for
evaluation.


Max
http://www.siliconpublishing.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Parkerson [mailto:chrisp@exceloncorp.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 11:00 AM
To: 'Bill Lindsey'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Cc: 'Ron Schmelzer'
Subject: RE: storing xml files into database


It would be nice if we could find an independent entity to benchmark us
all... I think there are enough of us in the XML DB and XML-enabled DB
market now to submit to an independent benchmark ;->  We've been
building ours since 1997 ;->.

We've spent a lot of our own resources on standalone and competitive
benchmarking (well, against the products we can get a hold of... so far,
we've only been able to do that with the RDBMS vendors... the rest of
you XML DB vendors do not have fully-functional evals like we at eXcelon
do ;->).

If not ZapThink, maybe there's someone else on this list that can
coordinate such an independent benchmark.

Cheers,
Chris