Tyler,

thanks a lot for your nice feedback. Indeed we are proud to say that our implementation of XQuery Update is way faster than most other implementations we know. Apart from our database structures that have been developed from scratch, one of the reasons is our low processing overhead, as we do not create backups, lock single XML nodes or update the index structures for single updates. Instead we believe that, in most of our use cases, it seems more appropriate to ensure fast updates, which can be followed by explicit cleanup requests (e.g. by calling the 'optimize' command in BaseX).

We're still working on the documentation of XQuery Update; the following page..

http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/dbis/basex/xquery.php

..is supposed to be updated in a few days.

All the best, Christian

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Tyler Corbin 094568c@acadiau.ca wrote:

If you could answer these questions or give a URL to my questions, It would be greatly appreciated...

Can you explain how this program goes about dealing with xQuery Updates? Because I’ve been getting some insanely quick inserting / deletion times and out of every open-source database system I’ve tinkered with, I’ve never seen anything as fast as this. I have ideas on how you go about this (haven’t had time to look at the source code) and I couldn’t find anything in the documentation (other than the indexing processes.)

(Sorry for such a short question, I was in a rush typing this.)

Much appreciated and great release!

Tyler.