Disco. Bell-bottom pants. Platform shoes. Relational database management systems. Some of us have soft spots for the 1970s. But if you’re EdgeDB CEO Yury Selivanov, you would prefer to put relational ...

Relational databases that support XML queries — including stalwarts Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server, newcomers such as OpenLink Software’s Virtuoso, but not yet MySQL — use XPath in the same way.