I just got in on the tail end of the conversation so excuse if this has already been discussed -
I have found quite a few articles, but none that really go over the pros and cons of both systems. I have downloaded Xindice, Exist, Berkeley XML DB and Tamino and plan over the next 2 months to bang on these systems quite a bit (I'm in grad school and using this for a project)...I'll let you all know if we find any other pros about the Exist system. One thing that does come to mind is that Exist is *supposed* to handle storage larger documents than Xindice, but as another person pointed out, the performance searching these documents could be quite slow. I did just go through the installation process for Exist; It was quite uneventful when running it inside of Tomcat (they have a .war file on the web)...but only Tomcat 4.x. I couldn't get it to work in 5.x.
cheers, susan
--On Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:27 PM +1000 Terence Kearns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My last question: supporting XUpdate and well-integration with apache web application server are two obvious advanteges that xindice have. any other pros?
Hey, just found out about the existance of eXist :)
It seems that the current stable release of eXist does indeed support XUpdate -- haven't tried it yet.
Also, I probably wouldn't try flying the _integration_ argument given that eXist can run embedded, read-only (ie. from a CD), as a conventional service or inside a servlet container (as does Xindice 1.1(?))
Has anyone written an article which makes a comparrison between the two? That would indeed be interesting.
-- Terence Kearns ~ ph: +61 2 6201 5516 IT Database/Applications Developer Enterprise Information Systems Client Services Division University of Canberra www.canberra.edu.au
