Unique Patented Technology Stores and Manipulates XML Structures Natively in the Database Birdstep Technology AS, an international vendor and developer of Ultra Small Footprint database technology, today announced a unique solution to an increasing problem faced by the growing mobile computing industry. The Birdstep solution is a database that supports XML to increase processing power and storage capacity on handheld devices.
The Birdstep technology, showcased today at a meeting with a major US software developer, included an XML-database of a 42,000 word Norwegian-English dictionary implemented on a PDA running Windows CE. The Birdstep database requires only 12MB of space to handle the dictionary, while traditional database systems supporting XML may need up to three times as much space (30MB).
"The demand for computing power on handhelds is increasing rapidly. People and corporations want content, flexible applications and the ability to manipulate large amounts of data on the local device," says Henning Klemp, CEO of Birdstep Technology. "Our technology offers that possibility."
Birdstep's patented atomisation techniques store and manipulate the XML-structures within the actual database. This technology differs from most vendors that provide relational or flat file databases that are not able to provide multilevel XML support. Birdstep's technology allows for native XML representation within the physical database itself. As such, Birdstep's support for XML becomes an integrated part of the handheld's database system, versus other vendors that only provide an XML-layer on top of the flat file or relational technology.
In addition, Birdstep technology keeps the whole XML-structure -or tree - persistently across disk and memory, a detail of importance when manipulating large and complex XML-documents.
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