Building web applications without a database system

ABSTRACT

Publishing data on the Web has become a commodity. Building, deploying, and operating a Web application, however, are still difficult tasks. This talk argues that one of the reasons is the use of database systems. While such database systems provide a great deal of features, they are hard to deploy and manage, do not scale, and dictate the architecture of the whole application. This talk proposes a new data management architecture and shows how XQuery can be used as a programming language in order to build applications on such a data management infrastructure.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.3 Languages
          Subjects: Query languages
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software

          Nouns: World Wide Web (WWW)