Hi again,
I read here that the current maximum number of nodes in a BaseX DB is 2^31 (2'147'483'648): http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Statistics
This limit still exists. There is a GitHub issue that refers to this limitation [1]. As you can address multiple databases via a single XQuery expression in BaseX, it is currently a non-issue for our own applications. Besides that, it would probably take quite some efforts to make it happen.
Cheers, Christian
[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/902
Is this related to 32bit CPU architecture? And are there plans for a 64bit version of BaseX that would allow larger databases?
I am asking because I am testing BaseX with large XML files (usually 5 to 15MB each) with a very deep nested structure and many small elements. Right now, I have created a DB with 3979 such documents. DB Size: 29,697 MB Nodes: 1,172,761,158
This means that I will reach the max. #nodes already with around 5500 reports and a DB size of 55 GB. This in turn will mean that I will have to split my documents on rather many database instances if I import e.g. 50,000 documents, which worries me a bit. Or do I worry with no reason?