4.4. Building Applications for Embedded XML Databases
An embedded XML database is a library that links directly into the address space of the application that uses it. This has significant implications for the design of both the embedded database and the application.
Because an embedded XML database needs to run inside the application, the database code itself cannot make many assumptions about how the application operates or what platform-specific services the application uses. What threading model should the database use? In practice, it must be able to use whatever threading model the application designer has selected. Similarly, the embedded database system must give the application developer control over resource consumption, whether concurrent ...
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