Designing XML Databases is the most comprehensive guide to XML-based database design in Web and enterprise environments. If you already own an XML-enabled database system, you'll discover powerful design techniques for making the most of it. If you're working with a conventional RDBMS, you'll learn better ways to utilize it in XML application development. And if you're constructing an XML-based database from scratch, you'll master a complete, schema-based conceptual framework, using a start-to-finish case study. Designing XML Databases introduces state-of-the-art XML-based data modeling techniques, demonstrating how to integrate database design, DBMS system design, and XML application design. Discover practical approaches to storing XML data in object-oriented, relational, and flat-file databases; learn how to build effective XML database queries; and how to construct effective XSL and Java user interfaces to Web XML databases. You'll find comprehensive coverage of XML database architecture and native indexing; techniques for integrating XML databases into broader enterprise systems; and specific solutions for environments with custom requirements, such as scientific research. For all database professionals, XML application developers, system architects, and technical leaders involved in enterprise/Web development.
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From the Back Cover
- Comprehensive guide to designing Web-enabled databases with XML technology
- Complete conceptual framework that begins with XML
- Integrating XML databases into enterprise systems
- Includes extensive Java(tm), SQL, and XSL example code
- Applies to all leading enterprise databases, including Oracle and IBM DB2
Design powerful XML-based databases for any application!
Designing XML Databases is a comprehensive guide to XML-based database design in Web and enterprise environments. If you already own an XML-enabled database system, you'll discover powerful design techniques for making the most of it. If you're working with a conventional RDBMS, you'll learn better ways to utilize it in XML application development. And if you're constructing an XML-based database from scratch, you'll master a complete conceptual framework, using a start-to-finish case study. Mark Graves covers all this, and more:
- Integrating database design, DBMS system design, and XML application design
- Using object-oriented, relational, and flat-file databases to store XML data
- Expert XML-based data modeling techniques
- XML database queries: practical approaches, JDBC techniques, and mathematical foundations
- Building XSL and Java user interfaces to Web XML databases
- XML database architecture and native indexing
- Integrating XML databases into broader enterprise systems
- XML databases in scientific applications
Designing XML Databases will be an essential resource for all database designers/developers, XML application developers, system architects, and project technical leaders-especially those in environments with highly customized requirements.
About the Author
MARK GRAVES has been developing software for over 15 years and spent much of that time developing database software. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in artificial intelligence and databases. He was then a postdoctoral fellow and instructor at Baylor College of Medicine, where he developed scientific software and databases to support the Human Genome Program. Currently, he is leading efforts to develop bioinformatics database solutions in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
About the Series Editor
DR. GOLDFARB is the father of markup languages, a term that he coined in 1970, and is the inventor of SGML, the International Standard on which both XML and HTML are based. You can find him on the Web at www.xmlbooks.com
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Use for XML Docs, Not Recommended for XML/Database Concepts,
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This review is from: Designing XML Databases (Paperback)
XML is a critical emerging technology which has the potential to revolutionize database connectivity in enterprise software development. While the author provides knowledge about XML document design and delivery, the book falls short of providing meaningful insights to those who wish to construct integrated commercial XML/Database systems.The writer doesn't seem to have a good idea of the history and development of these database concepts for commercial use. For example, he doesn't seem to know that Object databases have had repeated failures in terms of performance, maintainability and a host of other factors in mission critical applications. He would have gained by referencing "Foundation for Future Database Systems: The Third Manifesto," by C.J. Date and High Darwin, and by familiarzing himself with "The Great Debate," where E.F. Cobb demonstrated how non-relational models are orders of magnitude more complex than relational models for the same problem. As someone who has architected and developed large scale XML-based database applications, I sense that the author has come from a perspective of writing specialty XML document delivery databases for non-commercial purposes in the biotechnology industry, and provides minimal material which would be useful to anyone seeking to implement industrial strength XML databases (in an application server, for example) or to use XML messaging with relational databases (e..g., with webMethods and Rendezvous' Tibco.) The author has a writing style which is quite chatty and unprofessional, which continually distracts from its purpose, which is to compare XML, Relational and Object database design issues. Buy this book to skim through it as a reference, but do not expect it to be of great value to many of the issues that are likely to be faced in building enterprise class databases. You can find better information of a higher quality on this subject for free by visiting [certain websites] and reading many of their XML-related articles. It may be of more value if you only wish to create XML document servers.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
too vague,
By anonymous (Bethesda, MD United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Designing XML Databases (Paperback)
The author discusses some interesting topics, but I found the book far too full of vague statements about the usefulness of various ways of encoding XML and of database architecture. Similarly, the chapter on querying XML databases was enough to whet my appetite, but it was mostly on the representation of queries (useful, to be sure, but confusingly presented), had little about efficiency considerations (surely of paramount importance when discussing queries), and presented as "algorithms" methods that are so unrefined and simplistic that they're better labeled "query methodologies."To be fair, I haven't been all that impressed with the other XML books I've been skimming...
9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Welcome to the future's Databases!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Designing XML Databases (Paperback)
This is a great book, very useful for programmers, database developers, students, system architects, and anyone else who wishes to effectively use, design, or build XML databases. A basic knowledge of XML and databases is assumed, and the focus of this book is on pulling them together. Some advanced techniques are described in this book and the presentation is fairly dense in those areas.The book covers variety of topics like:
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