Big, Fast XQuery: Enabling Content Applications

Increasingly, companies recognize that most of their important information does not exist in relational stores but in documents. For a long time, textual information has been relatively inaccessible and unusable. Database applications allow relational data to be used and re-used; the architecture of relational database systems allow such applications to function even in the face of large amounts of data. XML [10] and XQuery [8] now allow the creation of a new kind of application that unlocks content in a similar way: a content application. In this paper, we examine the technologies that enable content applications to operate at scale in the context of MarkLogic Server [2]. 1 Content Applications Database applications built on top of relational database management systems use SQL to select specific pieces of data, join them against other data, and reassemble them into new views. It is this flexible, granular reuse of data makes relational databases powerful tools. Relational databases,...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: DEBU
• Authors: Mary Holstege
• Keywords: Content Applications, Database Applications, DEBU 2008, Relational Databases