Oxygen XML Author Eclipse plugin offers support for a variety of Relational and Native XML database connections. The database drivers and connections for various types of database are configured in the Data Sources preferences page and once configured, the database connections can be viewed and managed in the Data Source Explorer view. Oxygen XML Author Eclipse plugin also includes a Database perspective that helps you to manage databases.
Oxygen XML Author Eclipse plugin also offers generic support (table browsing and execution of SQL queries) for any JDBC-compliant database (for example, MariaDB).
Native XML databases have an XML-based internal model and their fundamental unit of storage is XML. They use XML as an interface to specify documents as tree structured data that may contain unstructured text, but on disk the data is stored as optimized binary files. This makes query and retrieval processes faster. Oxygen XML Author Eclipse plugin offers support for the most commonly used native XML databases, including: