[seek-dev] [Fwd: [bdbxml-ann] Berkeley DB XML 2.0.7]

[Dave Vieglais]

It's likely many of you know this already, but sleepy cat dbxml now 
supports XQuery (see below).  I don't know about 'yall but this seems 
like quite an exciting development for anyone interested in storing and 
retrieving metadata, or just data for that matter.  Fast, reliable, 
transaction aware xml database.

Another noteworthy item in the Xquery world is XQuark and the XQuark 
Fusion and XQuark Bridge products: http://xquark.objectweb.org/ which 
provide xquery support for relational dbs by mapping to an XMLSchema. 
The Fusion product goes a step further and provides a service interface 
to Bridge, enabling a distributed, hierarchical federation of XML 
databases queryable through XQuery.

cheers,
   Dave V.



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [bdbxml-ann] Berkeley DB XML 2.0.7
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:10:46 -0500
From: Gregory Burd <gburd at sleepycat.com>
To: xml at sleepycat.com, xml-announce at sleepycat.com

Sleepycat Software is pleased to announce:

         Berkeley DB XML 2.0.7
         http://www.sleepycat.com/products/xml.shtml


Berkeley DB XML is a native XML database engine for use within your
product.  Made available as a C++ library with language bindings for
Java, Perl, Python, PHP and Tcl Berkeley DB XML integrates directly
into your application, it is not a standalone database server.
Berkeley DB XML provides XQuery access into a database of document
containers.  XML documents are stored and indexed in their native
format using Berkeley DB as the transactional database engine.
Berkeley DB XML is one of the most sophisticated and reliable native
XML database engine available today.

The important new features and benefits of Berkeley DB XML 2.0.7
include:

   1. XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 (July 2004 draft)
   2. Node or whole document based storage
   3. Optional document validation
   4. Sophisticated document indexing to speed query access
   5. C++, Java, Perl, Python, TCL and now PHP APIs
   6. Command line access to document repositories

To see the change log for version 2.0.7, please visit:

     http://www.sleepycat.com/xml_update/2.0.7/if.2.0.7.html

For information about the upgrade requirements for 2.0.7, please see:

     http://www.sleepycat.com/xml_update/2.0.7/relnote.2.0.7.html


Licensing

Berkeley DB XML is an open source, dual-license product.  For more
information on our license please read:

     http://www.sleepycat.com/download/licensinginfo.shtml

For further information, please contact us at info at sleepycat.com.


Support

Sleepycat Software offers a range of support offerings for both our
commercial and open source customers.  If you need help during any
stage of development or into production, we have a support package to
meet your needs.  Please take a moment to review our offerings at:

     http://www.sleepycat.com/supports/index.shtml

As always, if you have technical questions, send email to:
support at sleepycat.com or post to the news group
comp.databases.berkeley-db
(http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.databases.berkeley-db).


Blog

The developers of Berkeley DB XML will be routinely posting about BDB
XML on our product blog http://www.sleepycat.com/blogs/bdb-xml -- add
our RSS or ATOM feeds to your list of news sources and keep track with
the latest postings.


Sleepycat Company Store

We are also pleased to announce that the Sleepycat Company Store is
open for business.  Hats, mugs, t-shirts and other items are available
at:

     http://www.companystuffonline.com/sleepycat/


Sleepycat Newsletter

Finally, we are also about to begin electronic circulation of "The
Cat's Eye View", a Sleepycat Software newsletter.  The newsletter will
contain tips and tricks from our engineering team, articles from our
staff, offers for our newest whitepapers and industry reports as well
as timely information about Sleepycat Software and its products.  Find
out where and when you can meet the Sleepycat Team in person at
conferences.  To sign up register at:

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Sleepycat's mission is to provide the fastest, most reliable and
scalable transactional database for developers.  Our products include:
   ** Berkeley DB - With over 200 million active deployments in use
      today, it's hard to make it through the day without somehow
      coming in contact with something that relies on Berkeley DB.
   ** Berkeley DB XML - A native XML database with an optimized
      XQuery access layer built atop Berkeley DB.
   ** Berkeley DB Java Edition - A pure Java version of Berkeley DB.
If you're building a software product or system that requires
dependable data storage, you owe it to yourself to evaluate our
software libraries.  Chances are one of our database engines will suit
your needs.

regards,

-greg

_____________________________________________________________________
Gregory Burd
Product Manager                         gburd at sleepycat.com
Sleepycat Software, Inc.                http://www.sleepycat.com/