Why use a RDBMS?

• mature, stable, portable, scalable

• widespread, easy to integrate

• foreign key access (usually) optimized

• … but assembling XML fragments is inherently slow (see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/niagara/papers/vldb00XML.pdf)

• OODBMS cost serious money and cannot be freely relicenced

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