  With the increasing popularity of XML data and a great need for a database
management system able to store, retrieve and manipulate XML-based data in an
efficient manner, database research communities and software industries have
tried to respond to this requirement. XML-enabled database and native XML
database are two approaches that have been proposed to address this challenge.
These two approaches are a legacy database systems which are extended to store,
retrieve and manipulate XML-based data. The major objective of this paper is to
explore and compare between the two approaches and reach to some criteria to
have a suitable guideline to select the best approach in each circumstance. In
general, native XML database systems have more ability in comparison with
XML-enabled database system for managing XML-based data

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