Marcio Carneiro Feb. 2, 2010, 2:31 p.m.

Is it possible to adopt a Native XML Database for the editor, like at http://modis.ispras.ru/sedna/?

Marcio Carneiro Feb. 2, 2010, 2:32 p.m.

Sedna is a free native XML database which provides a full range of core database services - persistent storage, ACID transactions, security, indices, hot backup. Flexible XML processing facilities include W3C XQuery implementation, tight integration of XQuery with full-text search facilities and a node-level update language.

Basic Features

* Available for free in open source form under Apache License 2.0
* Native XML database system implemented in C/C++
* Support for W3C XQuery language validated by W3C XQuery Test Suite
* Full-text search integrated with XQuery (based on dtSearch)
* Support for a declarative node-level update language »
* Support for ACID transactions
* Support for fine-grained XML triggers »
* Incremental hot backup »
* Indexes (based on B-tree) »
* Support for Unicode (utf8)
* SQL connection from XQuery »
* XQuery external functions implemented in C »
* Database security (users, roles and privileges) »

Application Programming

The following drivers are available from the download page:

* API for Java, C, PHP, Python, Ruby and more
* XQJ and XML:DB drivers for Java
* Module for Integration with Apache HTTP server

Bill Macaulay March 3, 2010, 8:37 p.m.

xDB 9.0 looks free for development purposes (from EMC).

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