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| Original author(s) | Wolfgang Meier |
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| Developer(s) | Pierrick Brihayne,Leif-Jöran Olsson,Adam Retter,[1]Dmitriy Shabanov, andDannes Wessels. |
| Initial release | 2000 (2000) |
| Stable release | 6.3.0 / October 26, 2024; 4 months ago (2024-10-26) |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Linux, Mac, Windows |
| Platform | Java |
| Standard(s) | XML,XQuery,XSLT,XPath,XUpdate,XQJ,DTD,XML Schema,RelaxNG |
| Type | NoSQLDBMS |
| License | GNU LGPL v2.1. |
| Website | www |
eXist-db (oreXist for short) is anopen source software project forNoSQL databases built onXML technology. It is classified as both a NoSQLdocument-oriented database system and anative XML database (and it provides support forXML,JSON,HTML and Binary documents). Unlike mostrelational database management systems (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases, eXist-db providesXQuery andXSLT as its query and application programming languages.
eXist-db is released under version 2.1 of theGNU LGPL.
eXist-db allows software developers to persist XML/JSON/Binary documents without writing extensive middleware. eXist-db follows and extends manyW3C XML standards such asXQuery. eXist-db also supportsREST interfaces for interfacing withAJAX-type web forms. Applications such asXForms 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]
eXist-db was created in 2000 by Wolfgang Meier.
eXist-db was awarded the best XML database of the year byInfoWorld in 2006.[2]
The companies eXist Solutions GmbH in Germany, and Evolved Binary in the UK, promote and provide support for the software.[3][4]
There is an O'Reilly book for eXist-db which is co-authored by Adam Retter and Erik Siegel.[5]
| Version | Release date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 6.0.0 | January 27, 2022 | Fixes forLog4Shell vulnerability and breaking changes to bundled ApacheXML-RPC libraries to resolve security issues.[6] |
| 5.0.0 | September 2, 2019 | More than 1,400 commits including improvements to document and collection locking, migration of build system fromApache Ant toApache Maven, support removed for running eXist-db inApache Tomcat.[7] |
| 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.[8] |
| 3.0.0 | February 9, 2017 | Almost 1,500 changes including support for XQuery v3.1, and updated version ofJetty withHTTP/2 support. Java 8 is now a requirement.[9] |
| 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.[10] |
| 1.0.0 | October 2006 |
eXist-db has support for the following standards and technologies:
