Re: [Exist-open] yet another xml database

[Gregor Z. <zei...@in...>]

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Bill Eldridge wrote:
> Despite the title of "yet another", I don't
> think there are that many out there, and
> the worthwhile ones that are free & open
> are probably countable on one hand (one finger?).
you mean exist? I've send the same mail to Xindice as well. How are they
different from exist?

> It would be encouraging if your professor
> would allow you to substitute an in-depth
> analysis of eXist's techniques in various
> areas
aehmmm... I'd be happy to integrate our storage model into another xml
database project, but I hope it's more than submitting some patches...

> with patches or re-writes or new classes
> to submit to Wolfgang if you find a better
> way to do something
What I was rather thinking about is the following:

The part we've done so far (although still buggy but alomost complete)
is the secondary data storage.
What we have _not_ done is everything above that (think server,
querying...)
We basically provide a core API (kinda persistant DOM) that query
and update languages can use (DOM, XQuery)

If it would be possible to match this core API with another xml database
that has already done some of those features, we would basically save that
time.

> help for the project in areas such as improving the XPath & WebDAV
> support, schema/RelaxNG support, replication, reliability, performance,
> user/group authentication and database permissions, security
> certificates/SSL, improved interfaces with other languages, etc.
those are all the parts we haven't done yet.
But our data storage model really rocks...

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Gregor Zeitlinger
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