Comments on: Mark Logic viewed as a different kind of text search technology vendor http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/04/29/mark-logic-viewed-as-a-different-kind-of-text-search-technology-vendor/ Understanding technology ... in both senses of the phrase Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:12:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Open issues in database and analytic technology | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/04/29/mark-logic-viewed-as-a-different-kind-of-text-search-technology-vendor/comment-page-1/#comment-171542 Open issues in database and analytic technology | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:12:34 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/?p=217#comment-171542 [...] the same league as application development over relational DBMS. The choices are mainly XML (e.g., MarkLogic), SQL for text integrated into RDBMS (limited by the weakness of those integrations), and something [...] [...] the same league as application development over relational DBMS. The choices are mainly XML (e.g., MarkLogic), SQL for text integrated into RDBMS (limited by the weakness of those integrations), and something [...]

]]> By: Curt Monash http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/04/29/mark-logic-viewed-as-a-different-kind-of-text-search-technology-vendor/comment-page-1/#comment-39086 Curt Monash Fri, 09 May 2008 03:05:28 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/?p=217#comment-39086 Dan, At the time Object Design/Excelon hadn't yet been bought by Progress, Oracle's and IBM's XML support were rudimentary indeed. Anyhow, it all comes down to what kinds of XML management you need to do. Most XML is either lightly transformed relational data or lightly transformed text data. Accordingly, most XML management is either decently handled by RDBMS, or else is done in a text search context. As you know, I've been writing about all this over on DBMS2. Best, CAM Dan,

At the time Object Design/Excelon hadn’t yet been bought by Progress, Oracle’s and IBM’s XML support were rudimentary indeed. Anyhow, it all comes down to what kinds of XML management you need to do. Most XML is either lightly transformed relational data or lightly transformed text data. Accordingly, most XML management is either decently handled by RDBMS, or else is done in a text search context.

As you know, I’ve been writing about all this over on DBMS2.

Best,

CAM

]]> By: Daniel Weinreb http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/04/29/mark-logic-viewed-as-a-different-kind-of-text-search-technology-vendor/comment-page-1/#comment-39037 Daniel Weinreb Thu, 08 May 2008 11:01:01 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/?p=217#comment-39037 At eXcelon (the second startup that I co-founded), we tried to do an XML DBMS product. Admittedly the company marketed it very poorly. Nevertheless, it's a hard product to sell. The problem is that Oracle and other RDBMS companies (I think IBM's DB/2) have XML features that most users find pretty attractive. And most users are much happier buying a database management system from one of the big vendors. I wish Mark Logic all the luck in the world, though! At eXcelon (the second startup that I co-founded), we tried to do an XML DBMS product. Admittedly the company marketed it very poorly. Nevertheless, it’s a hard product to sell. The problem is that Oracle and other RDBMS companies (I think IBM’s DB/2) have XML features that most users find pretty attractive. And most users are much happier buying a database management system from one of the big vendors. I wish Mark Logic all the luck in the world, though!

]]> By: DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services » Blog Archive » The Mark Logic story in XML database management http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/04/29/mark-logic-viewed-as-a-different-kind-of-text-search-technology-vendor/comment-page-1/#comment-38573 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services » Blog Archive » The Mark Logic story in XML database management Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:45:35 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/?p=217#comment-38573 [...] A companion post over on Text Technologies takes a text search view of MarkLogic. [...] [...] A companion post over on Text Technologies takes a text search view of MarkLogic. [...]

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