Re: databases and XML

Yves Sucaet wrote:

Hi List, I was wondering what strategies people are using to handle large volumes of XML data: How do you store the data? e.g.: Text-files, databases (which one)...? How big are your datasets? e.g.: MB, GB, TB...? What do you use to query the data? e.g.: PHP w/ text-files, SQLServer with "for xml" clause...? Finally, what limitations do you experience currently when handling XML?

Take a look at openstreetmap.org http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Planet is several GB of XML data. The only way of handling it to use it IS via a database, and it has scripts to dump it to various databases. So what large volume are you thinking about? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php