2011/08/15 - Apache Xindice has been retired.
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Apache Xindice
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About Apache Xindice
About Apache Xindice
Apache Xindice is a database designed from the ground up to store
XML data or what is more commonly referred to as a native XML database.
The name is pronounced zeen-dee-chay in your best faux Italian accent.
Don't worry if you get it wrong though, we won't mind. We just care
that you spell it correctly.
You might be wondering what a native XML database is good for? Well
it pretty much has one purpose, storing XML data. If you don't have any
XML data, don't want any XML data or think XML is the most over-hyped
technology of the new millennium, then Xindice is not for you. We're
not out to change the way data in general is stored, only to provide a
good solution for storing XML data. If you survey your projects and see
XML popping out of every corner, then Xindice might be a real help for
storing that XML.
The benefit of a native solution is that you don't have to worry
about mapping your XML to some other data structure. You just insert
the data as XML and retrieve it as XML. You also gain a lot of
flexibility through the semi-structured nature of XML and the schema
independent model used by Xindice. This is especially valuable when
you have very complex XML structures that would be difficult or
impossible to map to a more structured database.
At the present time Xindice uses XPath
for its query language and XML:DB XUpdate
for its update language. We provide an implementation of the
XML:DB API
for Java development and it is possible to access Xindice from other
languages using built in XML-RPC API.
As standards in the XML database area mature Xindice will include support
for those that are most important.
Xindice is the continuation of the project that used to be called
the dbXML Core. The dbXML source code was donated to the Apache
Software Foundation in December of 2001.
version 511427
Copyright ©
2001-2007 The Apache Software Foundation.
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