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What’s the Deal With an XML Database?
Posted by John Biedebach on 27 April 2016 02:14 PM

We all start out Jerry Seinfeld jokes with the phrase, “What’s the deal?” “What’s the deal with airline food?” He didn’t really use that phrase much, just like Andy Rooney never really said “Didya ever notice?”, but in my head when I ask the question “What’s the deal with XML?” I do it in a Jerry Seinfeld voice.

What is the deal with XML? In my last post I spoke about the reasons why XML (and JSON) are turning out to be a really big deal in the world of Big Data. Such a big deal that we


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What’s the Deal With an XML Database?
Posted by John Biedebach on 27 April 2016 02:14 PM

We all start out Jerry Seinfeld jokes with the phrase, “What’s the deal?” “What’s the deal with airline food?” He didn’t really use that phrase much, just like Andy Rooney never really said “Didya ever notice?”, but in my head when I ask the question “What’s the deal with XML?” I do it in a Jerry Seinfeld voice.

What is the deal with XML? In my last post I spoke about the reasons why XML (and JSON) are turning out to be a really big deal in the world of Big Data. Such a big deal that we


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Uncle Mort Weighs in on Databases
Posted by Damon Feldman on 09 February 2015 09:58 PM

We all have an Uncle Mort – that pragmatic, no bull, calls-it-like-he-sees-it type of guy. Today, I’m going to divulge a secret about how to figure out if you need a document database or not. I’ll start with some technical background, and then we will have a sit down with Uncle Mort!


Let’s just review a few things. NoSQL once meant exactly that — “No SQL” — to describe the category of new databases that did not store rows and columns and were not accessed using SQL. Back then, databases


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