As XML content expands, good management tools are key. Native XML databases, SQL database add-ons and third-party integration tools all present advantages -- and trade-offs.

Oracle takes on a new identity in this release—as a native XML database—providing significantly more capabilities for organizations storing or manipulating XML-based data. Incremental ...

Most native XML databases are oriented toward storing XML documents, where a key issue is the granularity with which the document is stored. In database terms, granularity can be described in several ...

Available since mid-2002, the technology supports XML as a native type in the database and can map between W3C XML Schema and the SQL:1999 object model.

Big names: MongoDB and Apache Couch DB Graph: These use a graph structure, essentially a diagram of the relationships within the data, in place of tables.

IBM and Oracle promise deep XML support in upcoming versions of their databases. With Web services on the rise, Eric Knorr says these solutions could help you get a handle all that XML data.

IBM’s native XML storage feature “doesn’t add any value,” said Mark Drake, an XML technology manager at Oracle. Viper will also support XQuery for processing XML data, along with standard SQL.