Hi all,
with version 9.0 of BaseX, texts will be better compressed than
before. Short strings and whitespace text nodes will be inlined in our
main storage, instead of being stored in an extra heap file as before.
This will particularly be helpful when perfoming mass updates on short
strings (replace 'yes' to 'no', etc.), and your future BaseX database
will get even smaller [1].
Obviously, BaseX 9.0 databases cannot opened anymore with older
versions. However, BaseX will be 100% backward compatible, so there
will be no need to export and recreate your existing database
instances. Instead, all future updates you perform will use the new
compression feature; and if you run a complete optimize, all existing
texts will be reduced as well.
All the best,
Christian
[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/1536
