Stephen Buxton, Director of Product Management, Mark Logic Corporation
"If relational databases can do XML, does that mean they can do Content?"

With the announcement of Viper, IBM has now joined fellow relational database vendors Oracle and Microsoft with an XML and XQuery offering. Relational databases are getting quite good at storing and querying XML data. But does that mean they are now ready for Content? This paper describes the difference between data applications and content applications, shows how XML and XQuery are useful for both (but particularly well-suited to content applications), and then argues that you still need a specialized Content Repository to manage Content