EXist
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eXist-db (or eXist for short) is an open source software project for NoSQL databases built on XML technology. It is classified as both a NoSQL document-oriented database system and a native XML database (and it provides support for XML, JSON, HTML and Binary documents). Unlike most relational database management systems (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases, eXist-db provides XQuery and XSLT as its query and application programming languages.
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Original author(s) | Wolfgang Meier |
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Developer(s) | Pierrick Brihayne, Leif-Jöran Olsson, Adam Retter,[1] Dmitriy Shabanov, and Dannes Wessels. |
Initial release | 2000 |
Stable release | 6.2.0
/ February 4, 2023 |
Repository | github |
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Linux, Mac, Windows |
Platform | Java |
Standard(s) | XML, XQuery, XSLT, XPath, XUpdate, XQJ, DTD, XML Schema, RelaxNG |
Type | NoSQL DBMS |
License | GNU LGPL v2.1. |
Website | www |
eXist-db is released under version 2.1 of the GNU LGPL.
eXist-db allows software developers to persist XML/JSON/Binary documents without writing extensive middleware. eXist-db follows and extends many W3C XML standards such as XQuery. eXist-db also supports REST interfaces for interfacing with AJAX-type web forms. Applications such as XForms may save their data by using just a few lines of code. The WebDAV interface to eXist-db allows users to "drag and drop" XML files directly into the eXist-db database. eXist-db automatically indexes documents using a keyword indexing system.[citation needed]
eXist-db was created in 2000 by Wolfgang Meier.
eXist-db was awarded the best XML database of the year by InfoWorld in 2006.[2]
The companies eXist Solutions GmbH in Germany, and Evolved Binary in the UK, promote and provide support for the software.[3][4]
There is an O'Reilly book for eXist-db which is co-authored by Adam Retter and Erik Siegel.[5]
Version | Release date | Changes |
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6.0.0 | January 27, 2022 | Fixes for Log4Shell vulnerability and breaking changes to bundled Apache XML-RPC libraries to resolve security issues.[6] |
5.0.0 | September 2, 2019 | More than 1,400 commits including improvements to document and collection locking, migration of build system from Apache Ant to Apache Maven, support removed for running eXist-db in Apache Tomcat.[7] |
4.0.0 | February 14, 2018 | New UserManager application, Cache Extension Module rewritten to use more performant Caffeine Java library, improvements to language search support, backward compatible with v3.[8] |
3.0.0 | February 9, 2017 | Almost 1,500 changes including support for XQuery v3.1, and updated version of Jetty with HTTP/2 support. Java 8 is now a requirement.[9] |
2.0.0 | February 2013 | Not backward compatible with v1. Changes to permission system to more closely follow UNIX permission model, web applications are stored in database rather than in webapp directory.[10] |
1.0.0 | October 2006 | |
eXist-db has support for the following standards and technologies: