pureXML News
An updated version of the TPoX
benchmark kit (TPoX 2.0) was released on July 31st, 2009. In August 2009 IBM has published TPoX 2.0 benchmark results with DB2 9.7.
IBM announced DB2 9.7 on April 22. To learn more about new pureXML(tm) features in the release, read the IBM developerWorks feature article or the IDUG Solutions Journal article. Or listen to a podcast.
TPoX 1.3 released on Dec 9, 2008 - an updated version of the benchmark "Transaction Processing over XML" has been released. Contributions from the open source community have enabled TPoX for Oracle and MS SQL Server.
The industry's first 1TB XML database benchmark has been published. - In a joint effort, Intel and IBM have proven high-performance XML transaction processing capabilities over 1TB of XML data. All measurements were performed at Intel labs by Intel personnel...
IT Consultant Robert Catterall discusses "Why customers choose DB2" - president of Catterall Consulting, talks about why his customers use DB2, specifically why pureXML makes a difference.
Thunderhead delivers software offering that embeds DB2 pureXML. The NOW Context Engine forms the core of Thunderhead's new analytic capabilities.
W3C Announces XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 standards - Tools to Query, Transform, and Access XML and Relational Data. Newest Open Web Standards Already Widely Supported in Industry.
"As key additions in the XML family, these standards allow businesses to flexibly access, query, manipulate and present their data for heterogeneous customers and partners. IBM has several market leading products that offer support for these important standards, in particular IBM DB2 Version 9 with support for XQuery, and we anticipate real benefits to our customers."
- Karla Norsworthy, VP Software Standards, IBM
Industry (quick start) bundles for pureXML are downloads that contain sample messages for the financial industry together with scripts that insert and query the documents, to help DBAs and Developers get started with DB2 pureXML in an industry specific context. You can get the downloads on the alphaWorks Website from the "Download now" link.
Industry Formats and Services with pureXML is a demonstration of end-to-end XML data exchange with a DB2 9 pureXML database, retrieval through RESTful generic Web services, and user interaction provided through Atom feeds and XForms-capable browsers. A variety of industry formats are used in the demonstration such as FIXML, FpML, MISMO or HL7. You can try the demonstration on the alphaWorks Website from the "View demo" link.
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