Hi Some questions > As part of my research under my professor I have to implement a web > interface to their benchmarking data. > > PHP is the chosen web language but we are little worried about the > database. The benchmark data comes to us in XML format (e.g. > http://www.matf.bg.ac.yu/~filip/ArgoLib/smt-lib-xml/Examples/FolEq1.xml). > We have to implement an interface to query them, get data, update etc. You can parse the XML, extract the data, put it to an SQL DB and move the XML to /dev/null (delete it). If you do that, you don't need an XML DB. Is this possible? > > We even can change schema in the form of attributes. . The data size > would be around 100 MB each XML with around 100 different XMLs. What do you mean by "different XMLs"? Are you looking for a maschine that makes SQL Tables from XML? What is inside of the 100MB XML? Your example is a MathML Formula. > > The load would be max 5-10 users any given time, batch updates once a > month and heavy load probably 2-3 times a month. Mission criticality is > not important, we can get it down sometimes. Which db would you suggest? > > I did Google research and as of now - I like eXist, Sedna (they seem to > have good PHP wrapper support) and Timber. Another thing would be good > documentation and support. With an XML DB you can query data using XPATH. Is that the thing you want? Oracle supports that for example. Bernhard -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
