Article: How XML Threatens Big Data

[Jonathan Wright]

http://dataspora.com/blog/xml-and-big-data/

Suggests providing big (government) datasets in simple formats.

[Sam Farrow]

that's a really interesting article *opens twitter client*

[Stuart A. Yeates]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Jonathan Wright<qua...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://dataspora.com/blog/xml-and-big-data/
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> Suggests providing big (government) datasets in simple formats.

It also makes the assumption that the big data is a good fit for a
relational model.

I babysit 500MB of textual XML, including such government data sets as
the official war histories (by arrangement with the MCH), and can tell
you that not all data is relational.

cheers
stuart