On 18 Apr 2018, at 21:12, Liam R. E. Quin liam@w3.org wrote:
On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 14:39 +0100, Feargal Hogan wrote:
Hi
Is anyone aware of any comparisons between baseX and Exist? I have some familiarity with Exist and I’d like o understand what are the benefits of each.
What really matters is suitability to task, though, and that will depend on what you're trying to do. And part of suitability to task is the support network - are other people doing similar thigns using eXist-db or BaseX?
Liam
Hmmm, havent seen anyone doing what I am looking to do.
Initially, I want to replace filesystem storage for about 12k xml files with queryable storage.
As we progress, I may want to batch update mutiple records contextually and/or enhance the xml based on regex patterns.
From the comparison chart that Ben referenced earlier I noticed that baseX doesn’t seem to actually load xml files into an xml database, is that right? So what does it do then? It creates a queryable indexed representation of the files? Is that right?
And what happens when a file is edited/updated?
Does baseX need to be 'told' that it has been updated, in order to add the new data to its indeices? Or does it know there has been an update and automatically reindex?
Thanks
Feargal