1. ©2007 Really Strategies, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL www.reallysi.com 1 Native XML Content Management Philadelphia XML Users’ Group

2. ©2007 Really Strategies, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL www.reallysi.com 2 Choosing a DB to store XML  What is a native XML database?  Advantages and disadvantages of relational verse native XML databases  Optimizing for XML storage  Intersecting desired features in your CMS with the capabilities of the DB

3. ©2007 Really Strategies, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL www.reallysi.com 3 Defining A “Native” XML DB  Specialized for storing and retrieving XML content by attribute, element or full text  Load content as XML in its entirety  Support for the XQuery 1.0 standard  Content-centric, as opposed to storing data in tables, rows and columns  Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft all claim out-of- the-box “native” capabilities. Are they?

4. ©2007 Really Strategies, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL www.reallysi.com 4 Storing XML content in RDBMS  RDBMS “chunk” content into tables, rows and columns of type XML  Changes to your DTD or W3C Schema require changes to your RDBMS  RDBMS will manage primary keys and referential integrity, if applicable  Difficult to query up and down the ancestor/descendant hierarchy

5. ©2007 Really Strategies, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL www.reallysi.com 5 Storing XML in a Native XML DB  Content is defined by a DTD or W3C XML Schema, not a table definition  Uses XML hierarchy as an inherent advantage in querying content  Store metadata as XML  Export content as it exists in your database, no need to “glue” it back together

6. ©2007 Really Strategies, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL www.reallysi.com 6 Native XML versus RDBMS RelationalNative XML ModelTableDTD or Schema Access method SQLXQuery PlatformRDBMSNative XML DB

7. ©2007 Really Strategies, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL www.reallysi.com 7 RSuite CMS Overview

8. ©2007 Really Strategies, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL www.reallysi.com 8 The RSuite CMS Advantage  Built for publishers  Manage XML content to the node level  Content reuse is a few mouse clicks  Metadata management  Highly flexible to adapt to your needs  Easy setup and deployment

9. ©2007 Really Strategies, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL www.reallysi.com 9 Intersecting XML and CMS  Multi-level XML content storage, versioning, and re-use  Metadata management, including inherent, layered, and system metadata  Load and export tools  Navigation and search tools, including XQuery and dynamic folder content  XMetaL integration (desktop and browser)  Support for open standards (XQuery, LDAP)  Customizable user interfaces

10. ©2007 Really Strategies, Inc. CONFIDENTIAL www.reallysi.com 10 Thank You mpuscar@reallysi.com info@rsuitecms.com