Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-23 Thread Christian Grün
Hola Julio, Thanks for your observations. > One question to the team: Can you include replication feature? Right now, we cannot offer an OOTB replication mechanism for BaseX, but we have integrated replication for our commercial costumers. Feel free to contact us in private if you are

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-20 Thread Julio Croce
Welcome! I have not used exist, but I can share my history. I used sedna for many years. When development stopped I looked for alternatives. I have read many comparisons in WWW andI have found basex. A detailed benchmark of basex and others:

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-20 Thread Christian Grün
Hi Omar, Right, we had some discussion on this. If I remember correctly, you had been dynamically addressing databases in BaseX, whereas in eXist-db (as far as I remember), all queries and rewritten path expressions will refer to one static and globally opened database instance, right? I guess

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-20 Thread Omar Siam
I use BaseX'es jobs for this. Works but you have to be careful because you give up all the protections against dead locking or becoming unresponsive because no new jobs can be scheduled anymore so all HTTP communication stops like database administration for example. Best regards Omar Am

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-20 Thread Omar Siam
Hi Christian! Am 20.04.2018 um 15:49 schrieb Christian Grün: * BaseX is not as smart on recognizing when indices can be used in longer XQuery code. This one is interesting to hear, because we observed that users chose BaseX in the past exactly because of the index rewritings. Did you encounter

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-20 Thread Marco Lettere
On 20/04/2018 15:49, Christian Grün wrote: Hi Omar, Thank you (and everyone else) for sharing your experiences. * BaseX in comparison to exist-db turned out to be particularly bad at hosting multiple XQuery based applications like RestXQ endpoint in one instance. Definitely true; BaseX was

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-20 Thread Christian Grün
Hi Omar, Thank you (and everyone else) for sharing your experiences. > * BaseX in comparison to exist-db turned out to be particularly bad at > hosting multiple XQuery based applications like RestXQ endpoint in one > instance. Definitely true; BaseX was not built for that. If you want to run

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-20 Thread Omar Siam
Hi all! I am dealing with 730 XML files with about 2.5 GB in total size right now for some months in BaseX. I'm happy to share the knowledge I gathered. We also tried exist-db on the same set of XML data and couldn't do any updates anymore in a reasonable amount of time. The most positve

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-20 Thread Feargal Hogan
> > Hi Feargal, > > Just my two cents, but to stress the fact what Christian is saying: BaseX is > an XML database (albeit the clever marketing guys at BaseX now branded it as > “BaseX Framework” with the new webpage ;-) ), so of course it actually loads > XML files into the database itself.

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-20 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 16:26 +0100, Feargal Hogan wrote: > > > 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? No. Yes. Maybe. baseX does load the documents into a database. It stores them

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-20 Thread Kirsten, Dirk
Hi Feargal, Just my two cents, but to stress the fact what Christian is saying: BaseX is an XML database (albeit the clever marketing guys at BaseX now branded it as "BaseX Framework" with the new webpage ;-) ), so of course it actually loads XML files into the database itself. I am wondering

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-19 Thread Feargal Hogan
> On 18 Apr 2018, at 21:12, Liam R. E. Quin 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.

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-18 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
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. I don't know of any recent ones that are in-depth, and both products have

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-18 Thread Ben Engbers
Hi, Look at http://vschart.com/compare/basex/vs/exist-db If you want, you can add other comparisons Cheers, Ben Op 18-04-18 om 16:34 schreef Alexander Holupirek: >> On 18. Apr 2018, at 15:39, Feargal Hogan wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Is anyone aware of any comparisons

Re: [basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-18 Thread Alexander Holupirek
> On 18. Apr 2018, at 15:39, 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. > > Thanks > > Feargal Both are, of course,

[basex-talk] baseX vs ExistDB

2018-04-18 Thread Feargal Hogan
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. Thanks Feargal