Native XML Databases
The term “native” with Native XML Databases refers to the notion of a data storage application that keeps the XML document intact. The application, by its very nature, keeps the structure of the XML pure and does not transform the XML into another data structure for relational or object-oriented database applications. The data model in this context is often referred to as similar structures that XPath, XML infoset, DOM, and SAX implement.
Native XML databases can often be broken into two groups for the functionality they address. Some are document-centric, meaning that they work well with large documents that require features for the document structure. This is applicable to systems that have XML representations of specific ...
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