[CODE4LIB] 34 th ELAG conference, 9-11th June 2010, Helsinki, Finland

2010-01-19 Thread Boheemen, Peter van
Call for papers for the 34th ELAG conference, 9-11th June 2010, Meeting New User Expectations Helsinki, Finland The ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Conference is Europe's premier conference for library and information management technology. The meetings aim at in depth discussions of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: what is the best open source native XML database

2010-01-19 Thread Sean Hannan
I've had the best experience (query speed, primarily) with BaseX. This was primarily for large XML document processing, so I'm not sure how much it will satisfy your transactional needs. I was initially using eXist, and then switched over to BaseX because the speed gains were very noticeable.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: what is the best open source native XML database

2010-01-19 Thread Godmar Back
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote: I've had the best experience (query speed, primarily) with BaseX.  This was primarily for large XML document processing, so I'm not sure how much it will satisfy your transactional needs. I was initially using eXist, and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: what is the best open source native XML database

2010-01-19 Thread Jon Stroop
Godmar, We're using eXist for a couple of apps here, and like it quite a bit. The full text search extensions in the 1.4 release are backed by Lucene, and it's pretty quick once you've tuned it (try some searches here: http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/ -- this is running on a beta of 1.4) and