Best XML Databases

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What are XML Databases?

XML databases are a type of database that stores, manages, and retrieves data in the XML (Extensible Markup Language) format. These databases are designed to handle semi-structured data, where data is stored in a tree-like structure using tags, making it more flexible than traditional relational databases. XML databases support querying and manipulating XML data using specialized languages such as XPath, XQuery, and XML Schema. They are commonly used in applications that require complex data structures, such as content management systems, document storage, and web services. XML databases allow for efficient handling of large and dynamic datasets while maintaining the hierarchical relationships between elements, making them suitable for applications that need to store and retrieve structured or semi-structured data efficiently. Compare and read user reviews of the best XML Databases currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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InterSystems IRIS

InterSystems

InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform that includes a multi-model transactional data management engine, an application development platform, and interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform. It is the next generation of our proven data management software.It includes the capabilities of InterSystems Cache and Ensemble, plus a wealth of exciting new capabilities to make it easy to build and deploy cloud based, analytics-intensive enterprise applications with even greater performance and scalability. InterSystems IRIS provides a set of APIs to operate with transactional persistent data simultaneously: key-value, relational, object, document, multidimensional. Data can be managed by SQL, Java, node.js, .NET, C++, Python, and native server-side ObjectScript language. InterSystems IRIS includes

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Oracle Berkeley DB

Oracle

Berkeley DB is a family of embedded key-value database libraries providing scalable high-performance data management services to applications. The Berkeley DB products use simple function-call APIs for data access and management. Berkeley DB enables the development of custom data management solutions, without the overhead traditionally associated with such custom projects. Berkeley DB provides a collection of well-proven building-block technologies that can be configured to address any application need from the hand-held device to the data center, from a local storage solution to a world-wide distributed one, from kilobytes to petabytes.

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MarkLogic

Progress Software

Unlock data value, accelerate insightful decisions, and securely achieve data agility with the MarkLogic data platform. Combine your data with everything known about it (metadata) in a single service and reveal smarter decisions—faster. Get a faster, trusted way to securely connect data and metadata, create and interpret meaning, and consume high-quality contextualized data across the enterprise with the MarkLogic data platform. Know your customers in-the-moment and provide relevant and seamless experiences, reveal new insights to accelerate innovation, and easily enable governed access and compliance with a single data platform. MarkLogic provides a proven foundation to help you achieve your key business and technical outcomes—now and in the future.

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Sonic XML Server

Progress Technologies

Sonic XML Server ™ is a set of high-speed processing, storage and query services for XML documents required to manage Sonic ESB operational data. By processing XML messages in native XML format, XML Server is very fast and does not place restrictions on the XML message schema. The advent of Extensible Markup Language (XML), a true hardware and software independent data format, was a revolutionary step forward. Because XML describes information independently of a specific system or application data formatting rules, XML is a key technology for supporting flexible exchange of heterogeneous data. However, this flexibility can take a lot of time and resources to process the XML format. Sonic XML Server provides fast processing of operational data and storage of XML messages required to efficiently implement a service-oriented architecture. Sonic XML Server extends and enhances Sonic ESB's XML message processing model by providing native query, storage and processing services.

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TEXTML Server

Ixiasoft

TEXTML Server is a database system designed to efficiently store and retrieve XML documents as well as documents in any format (PDF files, image files, etc.). TEXTML Server is a building block for applications that need to manage large amounts of XML information or for any application containing loosely structured information that cannot be efficiently handled by traditional relational database systems. The fact that it is designed with XML at its core makes TEXTML Server extremely versatile and ideally suited to a wide variety of applications. It can be used on its own or in tandem with traditional relational databases. It supports two-tier and n-tier architectures, including browser-based applications. Your client application (or the tier of your application that includes calls to TEXTML SDK) can run on Windows and many flavors of Linux. See the TEXTML Server Installation Guide for full information on system requirements.

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