The XML Data Store market no longer exists as a separate market, concludes a recently conducted major study of XML data store solutions by ZapThink, LLC, an analyst firm focused on XML and Web Services. The study, which covers XML data store vendors and XML-enabled relational database (RDBMS) vendors, finds that the XML data storage market currently consists of two segments: general-purpose XML data storage and purpose-built XML data storage. ZapThink concludes that RDBMS, content management, and integration vendors are best suited to offer general-purpose XML data store solutions, while XML data store pure-plays are offering increasingly focused, purpose-built XML data storage solutions.

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