It’s one way to know “we’ve arrived,” I suppose. You can now find, on the very first link under “technical information” on Oracle’s XML DB homepage a link to an Oracle-authored comparison white paper (and I use the term loosely) that compares Oracle 11g XML DB to Mark Logic Server. There’s a lot to say [...]
Entries Tagged as 'native XML'
Quick Thoughts on the Oracle Hatchet Job on Mark Logic
December 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Tags: Mark Logic · Oracle · RDBMS · XML · XQuery · native XML
Norm Walsh on The Content Wrangler
May 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Check out this wonderful interview of industry XML guru and Mark Logician Norm Walsh on The Content Wrangler, entitled Endless Possibilities: Norm Walsh on the Changing Nature of Publishing. Favorite quotes: On how long he’s been doing XML: “I’ve been doing XML since we spelled it SGML” On joining Mark Logic: “As soon as I [...]
Tags: XML · native XML · relational database
The Empire Strikes Back: Oracle on DB2 pureXML
March 4th, 2009 · 8 Comments
Oracle recently published this analysis of IBM DB2 pureXML, marking their first direct marketing counter-attack on IBM, who seems to have had a pretty easy time building differentiation around their XML market focus and product capabilities. Among the big-three RDBMS oligopolists, IBM has clearly done the most marketing around XML, including the native XML databases [...]
Tags: IBM · IBM DB2 · Oracle · XML columns · XML server · native XML · pureXML
See Mark Logic at O’Reilly Tools of Change
February 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Come see Mark Logic at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference this week in New York at the Marriott Marquis, 2/9 – 2/11/09. Norm Walsh from Mark Logic will be speaking on a panel entitled XML in Practice: Formats, Tools, and Techniques on Monday 2/9 at 1:30 PM. John Kreisa from Mark Logic [...]
Tags: Mark Logic · O'Reilly Media · Publishing 2.0 · digital publishing · native XML
IEEE Data Engineering Special XQuery Edition
December 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Database, search, and information management geeks should check out the IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering Special Issue on XQuery, which includes an article by by Mark Logic‘s own Mary Holstege, PhD entitled Big, Fast XQuery: Enabling Content Applications. From the editor-in-chief’s introduction: The database community has witnessed, over the past several [...]
Tags: Mark Logic · XML · XML server · XQuery · native XML · special-purpose DBMS
