Taking the Butler Research consultant quote in this piece
from "The Register" at
face value, one can only assume that IBM is basically throwing in
the towel re. DB2 and its ability to handle XML :-) The excerpt
below certainly implies this:
..So, using relational storage is inadequate for one reason or
another, and IBM has concluded that another approach is necessary.
The company’s next generation database will therefore have two
storage engines: one relational store and one native XML store. And
let me be quite clear about this: these engines will be completely
separate, with separate tablespaces, separate indexes (Btrees and
so forth on the one hand, and hierarchical on the other), and so
on...
Hold on here! IBM only