[Exist-open] Using eXist in production

[Aleksi K. <ak...@cs...>]

What is the best backend to use in larger applications? Preferrably a 
non-commercial backend, this a non-commecial project.

We need to do searches in a subsecond time from a collection of about 10 
000 medium-sized documents. Would Berkeley backend be the best solution 
for that?

What kind of hardware is the best choice for eXist? Memory, processor, 
bus, IO - which of those are the important ones?