Jamie Zhang wrote:If you are talking about the perforance of XML query (xpath etc), then file system and database are no the important factor.. the most important factor is the efficiency of XML parser xpath and indexing engine... I recommend http://vtd-xml.sf.netfor this...
if you are just talking about performance of saving xml to database or file system... there should be little difference at teh most basic level..
Exactly I'm talking about the performace of saving and retrieving XML files from the File System or the Database. Oracle supports storing XML data type directly into the database. So does this still mean that when I want to retrieve this XML datatype from the database, it opens it as a File, streams it and then puts it in the ResultSet?