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| eXist-db | |
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| Original authors | Wolfgang Meier, Leif Jöran Olson, Adam Retter, Dannes Wessels, Patrick Brihaye |
| Developer | eXist-db maintainers |
| Release | 2000 |
| Stable release | 6.4.1
/ March 6, 2026 |
| Preview release | 7.0.0-beta3
/ June 2, 2026 |
| Written in | Java, XQuery, XSLT, JavaScript |
| Operating system | Linux, Mac, Windows |
| Platform | Java |
| Standards | XML, XQuery, XSLT, XPath, XUpdate, XQJ, DTD, XML Schema, RelaxNG |
| Type | Document-oriented_database NoSQL |
| License | GNU LGPL v2.1. |
| Website | www |
| Repository | github |
eXist-db (or eXist for short) is an open source software project for NoSQL databases built on XML technology. It is classified as both a NoSQL document-oriented database system and a native XML database (and it provides support for XML, JSON, HTML and Binary documents). Unlike most relational database management systems (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases, eXist-db provides XQuery and XSLT as its query and application programming languages.
eXist-db is released under version 2.1 of the GNU LGPL.
Features
[edit]eXist-db allows software developers to persist XML/JSON/Binary documents without writing extensive middleware. eXist-db follows and extends many W3C XML standards such as XQuery. eXist-db also supports REST interfaces for interfacing with AJAX-type web forms. Applications such as XForms may save their data by using just a few lines of code. The WebDAV interface to eXist-db allows users to "drag and drop" XML files directly into the eXist-db database. eXist-db automatically indexes documents using a keyword indexing system.[citation needed]
History
[edit]eXist-db was created in 2000 by Wolfgang Meier.
eXist-db was awarded the best XML database of the year by InfoWorld in 2006.[1]
The companies eXist Solutions GmbH in Germany, and Evolved Binary in the UK, promote and provide support for the software.[2][3]
There is an O'Reilly book for eXist-db which is co-authored by Adam Retter and Erik Siegel.[4]
| Version | Release date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 6.0.0 | January 27, 2022 | Fixes for Log4Shell vulnerability and breaking changes to bundled Apache XML-RPC libraries to resolve security issues.[5] |
| 5.0.0 | September 2, 2019 | More than 1,400 commits including improvements to document and collection locking, migration of build system from Apache Ant to Apache Maven, support removed for running eXist-db in Apache Tomcat.[6] |
| 4.0.0 | February 14, 2018 | New UserManager application, Cache Extension Module rewritten to use more performant Caffeine Java library, improvements to language search support, backward compatible with v3.[7] |
| 3.0.0 | February 9, 2017 | Almost 1,500 changes including support for XQuery v3.1, and updated version of Jetty with HTTP/2 support. Java 8 is now a requirement.[8] |
| 2.0.0 | February 2013 | Not backward compatible with v1. Changes to permission system to more closely follow UNIX permission model, web applications are stored in database rather than in webapp directory.[9] |
| 1.0.0 | October 2006 | |
Supported standards and technologies
[edit]eXist-db has support for the following standards and technologies:
- XPath - XML Path language
- XQuery - XML Query language
- XSLT - Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
- XSL-FO - XSL Formatting Objects
- WebDAV - Web distributed authoring and versioning
- REST - Representational state transfer (URL encoding)
- RESTXQ - RESTful annotations for XQuery
- XInclude - server-side include file processing (limited support)
- XML-RPC - a remote procedure call protocol
- XProc - a XML Pipeline processing language
- XQuery API for Java[10]
See also
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References
[edit]- ↑ staff, InfoWorld (January 2, 2006). "2006 Technology of the Year Awards: The winners' list". InfoWorld.
- ↑ "About eXist Solutions". existsolutions.com. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ↑ "About Evolved Binary". evolvedbinary.com. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
- ↑ Siegel, Erik; Retter, Adam (2014). eXist : A NoSQL Document Database and Application Platform. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4493-3710-0.
- ↑ "eXist-db 6.0.0". exist-db.org. January 2, 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
- ↑ "eXist-db 5.0.0". exist-db.org. September 2, 2019. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
- ↑ "eXist-db v4.0.0". exist-db.org. February 14, 2018. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
- ↑ "eXist-db v3.0 available". exist-db.org. February 9, 2017. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
- ↑ "Known Issues when upgrading". exist-db.org. 2020. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
- ↑ "eXist XQJ API". xqj.net.