XML has become an international standard because of its widespread support across industry boundaries and vendors, its platform and application independence, and its flexibility. DataDirect Technologies offers the following products in support of XML so your critical business applications can handle heterogeneous data sources.
The XQuery language is now recognized as one of the best approaches for handling and processing XML, and DataDirect XQuery is the XQuery implementation of choice. DataDirect XQuery can be used to:
DataDirect XQuery is ideal for critical business systems because of its quality, breadth of support for all major relational databases and legacy formats, and ability to handle large XML documents.
Learn more about the benefits of DataDirect XQuery.
DataDirect Connect is deployed in thousands of production environments and relied on by more than 300 software vendors who embed it in their commercial products. DataDirect Connect provides stable, high-performance data connectivity to Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, and other data sources. In addition to database connectivity, the DataDirect Connect family of database drivers supports the native XML capabilities provided by each database vendor.
DataDirect Connect provides connectivity to multiple relational databases and gives you the flexibility to access XML data however it is stored in the database.
Learn more about how DataDirect Connect can support processing XML in your applications.
Our DataDirect Shadow line of mainframe integration products makes your core legacy applications and data available to .NET and Java developers for new XML-based projects, often without their even being aware that they are accessing a mainframe platform.
Learn more about the XML capabilities in DataDirect Shadow.
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