RE: [xml-dev] XML aggregation question?

["Michael Rys" <mrys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about all the Express versions of the relational database products
that have XML features such as SQL Server 2005 express
(http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx) or Oracle
10gR2 Express?

They should be free (have some processing limitations though like amount
of data) but are normally fully functional for the general SQL and XML
functionalities.

Best regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Koberg [mailto:rob@koberg.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 4:26 AM
> To: peter murray-rust
> Cc: xml-dev
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XML aggregation question?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On eXist:
> 
> the last time I tried eXist, while testing by adding/deleting
> documents/nodes and frequently restarting the (tomcat) webapp that
eXist
> was embedded in, somehow (???) caused thousands of unidentifiable
> fragments to be created and added to the DB. Perhaps because it was
> trying to save some kind of context/session info - I don't know. It
was
> discussed on the list by more than one person who experienced it, but
> could not be reproduced by the developers.
> 
> I also experienced hangs in the response from eXist that was also
> reported by other people. Also not able to be reproduced by the
> developers.
> 
> I lost confidence for a specific need I had at the time. I still have
> hope for it - it does seem to be the best bet out there.
> 
> >> (Why I would want to see another Open Source CMS is kind of like
> >> needing to see another lawn mowing pattern.)
> >
> > Unless we hear otherwise there are only two Open candidates - eXist
and
> > XML-DB.
> >
> 
> For your situation eXist and XMLDB are both open and free (as in
price).
> For someone who does not wish to open their source, eXist is the only
> one that is free (as in price). I don't mind paying for something, but
> XML databases seem to be more of a 'cross you fingers and close your
> eyes' kind of thing. Tamino just seems way to high priced - it seems
> like alot of money goes into their salesforce. XMLDB just pissed me
off,
> but still too high priced.
> 
> So I have been sticking with the filesystem, Apache's Lucene for
> indexing and CVS or Subversion for version control. If I need a
> database, I hire a RDB consultant.
> 
> best,
> -Rob