BaseX-Announce October 2011

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BaseX 7.0.1: Release early, release often..
by Christian Grün 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hi all, we are glad to announce BaseX 7.0.1, which is basically the result of your initial feedback on 7.0. Those are the most important changes: DISTRIBUTIONS: - Windows installer was updated to support latest features - ZIP file was updated (initial config & directories added) - Short directory names are chosen if config file resides in app.dir. - Start scripts have been improved XQUERY: - much faster execution of count() when applied to opened databases SERVER (http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup_Options#BaseX_HTTP_Server): - Flag -c connects to an existing database server - Flag -s specifies a port for stopping the HTTP server (Jetty) - Flag -S starts the HTTP server as a service - running write operations will be completed before server is stopped API: - Ruby, Python, PHP, Java: clients updated Please check out the well-known links: - Homepage: http://basex.org/ - Documentation: http://docs.basex.org/ - Snapshots: http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ - Sources: https://github.com/BaseXdb Enjoy the update! Christian BaseX Team

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BaseX 7.0
by Christian Grün 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Dear all, thanks everyone for your support! We are more than excited to announce BaseX 7.0 (a.k.a. the TEI Edition), the best version we have ever released! It includes an impressive bunch of new features: STORAGE: Files of any data type can now be stored in BaseX in their raw representation. This means that BaseX can now be used as a full-fledged storage system. Next, millions of documents can now be added faster than ever before. APIs: We have rewritten our HTTP services: Our REST implementation has been integrated much more tightly in the core system. It can be used to query XML data, retrieve binary resources, and send database commands. A new WebDAV API provides access to the database via your file system, oXygen and various other clients. The classical clients (available for 10 different programming languages) have been extended and sped up. XQUERY: Numerous modules have been added to process all kinds of data formats via XQuery: JSON documents can be parsed and serialized, SQL databases can be queried, XSLT cryptographics functions are available to encrypt data and use XML signatures. Our database module has been extended to facilitate the storage and modification of database resources. FULL-TEXT: We now offer tokenization and stemming support for 21 different natural languages, including Japanese (thanks to Toshio HIRAI!). Next, we have further optimized the internals of our retrieval features of BaseX. BaseX is a very light-weight, high-performance and scalable XML Database and XPath/XQuery Processor, including full support for the W3C Update and Full Text extensions. An interactive and user-friendly GUI frontend gives you great insight into your XML documents and collections. BaseX is completely Open Source (BSD-licensed) and platform independent. And most important: it runs out of the box and is easy to use. We hope you have fun with our latest release, and we're looking forward to your feedback! Christian BaseX Team __________________________________ BaseX Team Uni KN, Box 188 D-78457 Konstanz http://www.basex.org

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BaseX-Announce October 2011