XML Management System

XML Management System (shortened as XMLMS) is a system that allows queries and manipulation of XML data (similar to RDBMS querying and manipulating generic data). Current XMLMS can be divided into two categories: XML-Enabled databases and Native XML databases.

XML-Enabled databases

XML-Enabled databases, typically relational databases, provide extensions for transferring data between XML documents and themselves. Such systems are generally designed to store and retrieve data-centric XML documents.

Native XML databases

Native XML databases, on the other hand, either store the entire XML document in text form with limited retrieval capabilities or store a binary model (e.g. Document Object Model) of the document in an existing or custom data store.