sqlite or xml

Kelie kf9150 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 03:31:29 EST 2007


On Dec 6, 3:37 pm, tinkerbar... at gmail.com wrote:
> If you're happy going with sqlite then stick with it.  If on the other
> hand you were considering XML because you're more comfortable with
> that (e.g. you find XML easy to work with and you're more familiar
> with XPath/XQuery than SQL) then you could use XML if you wanted.  The
> choice is not between XML and databases, it's between XML and
> relational. There are -- shock-horror! -- full-featured XML databases
> too (e.g. Berkeley DB XML, which is lightweight, fast, embeddable and
> open source like sqlite, with indexing, transactions etc. if you need
> that).

Tim?

Ah, now you're making it hard for me to decide again. :-) Talking
about comfortable, I do like Amara XML toolkit a lot. But I'll stick
with sqlite in this case.

Thanks for your valuable input and for mentioning Berkeley DB XML. I
didn't know about it and will have to read about it.



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