xmlhack: XML databases add XQuery, SVG capabilities

X-Hive have released a demo of an XQuery implementation, while Ipedo have announced a new version of their database, including SVG management capabilities.

X-Hive's query implementations works over XML documents stored in the X-Hive/DB database, still an unusual claim among existing query implementations. It claims to implement 74 out of the 78 XQuery use cases. The demo is available on X-Hive's web site.

Version 2.0 of Ipedo's XML Database includes several new features geared towards content-driven XML applications. They include:

Free-text searching over XML documents
SVG management: includes image search and dynamic image inclusion
Distributed database management
Intregrated XSLT transformation
Large document processing (up to 1GB)

Ipedo XML Database 2.0 is a commercial product. More information is available from their web site.

Re: XML databases add XQuery, SVG capabilities (Hugh Elgar - 15:37, 26 Oct 2001)

Re: XML databases add XQuery, SVG capabilities (G. Schnell - 20:00, 25 Oct 2001)

X-Hive's XQuery implementation is very impressive! I've tested M$ and Software AG's XQuery implementations before, but they don't even come close to this new implementation.

Very interesting is the use of the XMach-1 cases, curious to see how the other XML databases perform on this benchmark, both in XQuety conformance as well as general performance.