RE: storing xml files into database

["Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Schmelzer [mailto:rschmelzer@zapthink.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:39 PM
> To: Max Dunn; chrisp@exceloncorp.com; 'Bill Lindsey';
> xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: storing xml files into database
> 
> 
> Hi all! If we (ZapThink) did a benchmark, I guarantee we would make it
> freely available. We'll make the general conclusions and survey of our
> report also freely available, and the detail for a cost, but 
> we'll get more
> info out to the list as the report gets released.

I would just like to remind everyone that benchmarking is a black art,
widely misused for marketing purposes ("benchmarketing").  There's a useful
article at http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/brief/2000/36/enterprise/ on how
things have evolved in the RDBMS world so that after many years they finally
have reasonably credible benchmark results. 

I wonder if the Transaction Processing Performance Council has any interest
in XML benchmarks ...