Provides a NoSQL database environment for varying numbers of big entities. The data stored in an XML database are held as a big whole XML chunk containing various smaller XML nodes in a tree like structure. There are two types of XML databases used when storing XML data in Emakin; those are process databases and a domain database.
Process Database
Every time a process created in Emakin, a separate XML database is allocated for that process automatically. All the workflows running on Emakin keep their data as XML forms and whenever a workflow gets triggered from a process, its form content and an XML metadata of this workflow gets stored into the corresponding process database. The data stored here is almost identical to the data stored in the relational database except for being in XML form. The key difference here is that XML data of a workflow is more compact and easier to obtain and organize to create desired reports with it. Besides retrieving these data from SQL data tables is managed by Emakin's functions in a resctricted aspect. Therefore...
Instance Data
The XML metadata stored in the process database is enclosed within <Instance> tags and contains various information about the goings-on of a workflow.
Since all the workflows keep their data in XML forms, it is a very practical way to store those data in the same form and to use...