Sure. I'm using BaseX 8.2.3 on linux, using the C# client located at https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/basex-api/src/main/c%23/BaseXClient.cs.
The DB, as reported by the rest interface:

<rest:database resources="1015172" size="10063643321">mferrari_test_6</rest:database>

This is my simplified test function:

        static void DoSingleDeleteProcessing(string db)
        {
            int localId = 310072;

            BaseXClient.Session baseXClientSession = new BaseXClient.Session(server, 1984, user, password);
            baseXClientSession.Execute("open " + db);

            string filename = "prueba" + localId.ToString("D8") + ".xml";
            baseXClientSession.Execute("DELETE " + filename);
            baseXClientSession.Close();
        }

This is what I get in the logs:

17:20:22.253    10.1.5.144:61340        admin   REQUEST OPEN mferrari_test_6    39.83 ms
17:20:22.321    10.1.5.144:61340        admin   OK      Database 'mferrari_test_6' was opened in 68.44 ms.      68.54 ms
17:20:22.324    10.1.5.144:61340        admin   REQUEST DELETE prueba00310072.xml       1.47 ms
17:21:20.794    10.1.5.144:61340        admin   OK      1 resource(s) deleted in 58469.92 ms.   58469.98 ms


A Replace on the same DB results in the following entries:

17:24:38.070    10.1.5.144:61359        admin   REQUEST OPEN mferrari_test_6    39.97 ms
17:24:38.138    10.1.5.144:61359        admin   OK      Database 'mferrari_test_6' was opened in 67.69 ms.      67.79 ms
17:24:38.170    10.1.5.144:61359        admin   REQUEST REPLACE prueba00310071.xml [...]        0.34 ms
17:24:38.548    10.1.5.144:61359        admin   OK      0 resource(s) replaced in 377.84 ms.    377.98 ms



Thanks!
     Martín.

> Subject: Re: [basex-talk] DELETE Performance
> From: alex@holupirek.de
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:06:59 +0200
> CC: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
> To: ferrari_martin@hotmail.com
>
> Hi Martín,
>
> could you provide a simple, self-contained code snippet that demonstrates this behaviour? This way we could have a look.
>
> Alex
>
> > On 25.08.2015, at 00:43, Martín Ferrari <ferrari_martin@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi:
> > I have a DB with around a million records. Adding resources to it takes some milliseconds. However, executing DELETE on a resource takes more than 60 seconds. Am I doing something wrong? Is this by design?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Martín.
>