Sedna is a free native XML database which provides a full range of core database services - persistent storage, ACID transactions, security, indices, hot backup. Flexible XML processing facilities include W3C XQuery implementation, tight integration of XQuery with full-text search facilities and a node-level update language.
The following drivers are available from the download page:
Available for Windows, Linux, MacOS X (x86/PPC), FreeBSD, Solaris (x86)
Basic Features
- Available for free in open source form under Apache License 2.0
- Native XML database system implemented in C/C++
- Support for W3C XQuery language validated by W3C XQuery Test Suite
- Full-text search integrated with XQuery (based on dtSearch)
- Support for a declarative node-level update language »
- Support for ACID transactions
- Support for fine-grained XML triggers »
- Incremental hot backup »
- Indexes (based on B-tree) »
- Support for Unicode (utf8)
- SQL connection from XQuery »
- XQuery external functions implemented in C »
- Database security (users, roles and privileges) »
The following drivers are available from the download page:
- API for Java, C, PHP, Python, Ruby and more
- XML:DB Driver For Java
- Module for Integration with Apache HTTP server
Available for Windows, Linux, MacOS X (x86/PPC), FreeBSD, Solaris (x86)
