Comments on: The Gaul of it http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/12/the-gaul-of-it/ Andy Hayler, founder of Kalido and The Information Difference, gives his views on the enterprise software market. Issues covered include data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and data quality. Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:22:13 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: admin http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/12/the-gaul-of-it/comment-page-1/#comment-56025 admin Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:19:15 +0000 http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/12/the-gaul-of-it/#comment-56025 Fair point, but outside of customer data for telcos and a few other situations, most master data is not large in volume (e.g. product info, asset, or even "customer" in any B2B business). Complexity rather than volume is mostly the issue here, so I don't see why an XML database should not be a reasonable choice for this kind of application. Fair point, but outside of customer data for telcos and a few other situations, most master data is not large in volume (e.g. product info, asset, or even “customer” in any B2B business). Complexity rather than volume is mostly the issue here, so I don’t see why an XML database should not be a reasonable choice for this kind of application.

]]> By: Nigel http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/12/the-gaul-of-it/comment-page-1/#comment-55998 Nigel Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:51:17 +0000 http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/12/the-gaul-of-it/#comment-55998 Berkeley DB comes in three flavours (basic key/value, a Java edition, and the XQuery/XML stuff). I suspect the bulk of mobile installations are of the basic/Java variety. Maybe this is a bit of a red herring as far as the suitability of an XML store for MDM goes? Regards Nigel Berkeley DB comes in three flavours (basic key/value, a Java edition, and the XQuery/XML stuff). I suspect the bulk of mobile installations are of the basic/Java variety. Maybe this is a bit of a red herring as far as the suitability of an XML store for MDM goes?

Regards Nigel

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