Re: PHP with a XML database

I would tend to agree with this Bastien

From: Edward Vermillion <evermillion@doggydoo.net> To: Ritesh Nadhani <riteshn@gmail.com> CC: PHP DB <php-db@lists.php.net> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] PHP with a XML database Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:36:33 -0600 I would imagine that parsing the XML file you get once a month and storing the information in *some* kind of "real" database, whether it's oracle, mysql, postgresql or whatever would give you better performance than parsing the XML on each page request. Unless the XML is of a trivial size of course, but I didn't get that impression from the original post. Just a thought... On Jan 26, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Ritesh Nadhani wrote:

Thank you. I dont think we have the computing power for this project to use Oracle 10g. Also, the system is too big and nobody out here has actual knowledge of Oracle but anyway I will keep it in mind. Ritesh N.A.Morgan@bton.ac.uk wrote:

Ritesh, Don't know of a suitable XML database to use with PHP, but I could recommend using Oracle 10g. There are built in XML services that should help with your project. Furthermore, PHP has a well documented Oracle interface (OCI8) just for this. To handle the XML though, you would probably need to get to grips with PL/SQL, Oracle's own stored procedure and trigger language. And the best part, you could use OracleXE for free, although it only gives you a database with up to 4GB user data, up to 1GB of RAM and use of only one processor in a multi-processor environment. Regarsd, Neil -----Original Message----- From: Ritesh Nadhani [mailto:riteshn@gmail.com] Sent: 26 January 2007 06:43 To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] PHP with a XML database Hello all As part of my research under my professor I have to implement a web interface to their benchmarking data. PHP is the chosen web language but we are little worried about the database. The benchmark data comes to us in XML format (e.g. http://www.matf.bg.ac.yu/~filip/ArgoLib/smt-lib-xml/Examples/ FolEq1.xml) . We have to implement an interface to query them, get data, update etc. We even can change schema in the form of attributes. . The data size would be around 100 MB each XML with around 100 different XMLs. The load would be max 5-10 users any given time, batch updates once a month and heavy load prolly 2-3 times a month. Mission criticality is not important, we can get it down sometimes. Which db would you suggest? i did google research and as of now - I like eXist, Sedna (they seem to have good PHP wrapper support) and TImber. Any suggestions? Ritesh -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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