[Zope] XML and Object Oriented DBMSes

[Robert OConnor]

There is a good article in InfoWorld at
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/features/990329xml.htm

titled: "XML buoys databases for corporate markets Web and XML keep
object-oriented databases afloat in a world gone relational"
by: Brett Mendel

This may be a good basic reference to put in zope to promote
the OOP point of view.

I like this:

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"I think it's a matter of efficiency, compactness, and directness," said
Rita Knox, vice president and research director at the Gartner Group, in
Stamford, Conn. "It's not that these things can't be done with an RDBMS,
it's just much more efficient with an ODBMS."

RDBMSes, for example, use rows and columns for every instance in the
database, regardless of whether a particular cell is needed in a particular
instance; ODBMSes only store the particular parts of the data actually used
in any specific instance, Knox explained.

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