[Pipet Devel] Data Storage Interfaces

[Alan J. Williams]

Having the database able to serve up parsed xml would probably make for a
substantial speed improvement.  On the other hand, do we really want to
lock all loci users into installing a DBM? Probably not, so either way
there needs to be an abstraction layer between loci and the data storage
implementations.

On a related note, I wonder how difficult it would be to map xml data onto
an object oriented relational database system such as postgresql?

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, J.W. Bizzaro wrote:
 > I'm not really up on databases, but is there a DB that uses XML as a data
 > format?

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