Prof. Vilas Wuwongse, AIT Vice President for External Relations and Chair of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Database Applications recently held in Bangkok, noted that the hottest topic in databases today is the native XML (eXtensible Markup Language) database. This was revealed in his interview with Don Sambandaraksa of Post Database, Bangkok Post, dated 25 April 2007.
Prof. Vilas was also quoted that more and more applications are communicating with each other via XML as a medium. Most of these applications store their underlying data in relational databases. The next logical step is therefore to develop native XML databases that can communicate directly with each other over a network, cutting out the need to translate to and from another format.
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