Hibernate and xml databases

borak · **Posted:** Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:54 am

I think hibernate does not support a xml database, such as "exist".
I wonder if it would be hard to integrate such property to hibernate. Because I want to use hibernate with a xml database and see the performance.
What do you people consider about xquery and xml databases?

steve · **Posted:** Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:44 am

From the front page:

Quote:

Hibernate is a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java

Notice especially the word relational. Hibernate is focused on RDBMS usage.

AFAIK, changes to Hibernate for usage with other database types (whether xml, ldap, etc) would be substantial. It would basically mean having to re-implement from scratch all the key interfaces.

borak · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:30 am

but what if the xml database is kind of Relational Database.
for instance, eXist db (see http://exist.sourceforge.net/), it is relational and differ only from other db as keeping data in XML based configuration

christian · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:31 am

Does it provide an SQL API via JDBC?