19.5. Test Results

The benchmarking tests were run on an Intel Pentium III server with 450MHz, 256MB RAM, and two mirrored UW-SCSI hard disks. The clients included an Intel Pentium III processor with 350MHz and 128MB RAM. They were connected to the server by a 10-Mbit local area network. The storing strategies used a well-known relational DBMS, object-oriented DBMS, directory server, and native XML DBMS (for legal reasons the products cannot be named).

The documents used were automatically generated based on a DTD that defines the structure of project descriptions. The DTD contains 26 elements with a maximum nesting size of 8 and 4 attributes. XML documents based on this DTD contain information on the project members, such as names and addresses, ...

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