[bdbxml-ann] Berkeley DB XML 2.2.8

Sleepycat Software is pleased to announce:

         Berkeley DB XML 2.2.8
         http://www.sleepycat.com/products/bdbxml.html


Berkeley DB XML is a native XML database engine for use within your  
product.  Made available as a C++ library with language bindings for  
Java, Perl, Python, PHP and Tcl Berkeley DB XML integrates directly  
into your application, it is not a standalone database server.   
Berkeley DB XML provides XQuery access into a database of document  
containers.  XML documents are stored and indexed in their native  
format using Berkeley DB as the transactional database engine.   
Berkeley DB XML is one of the most sophisticated and reliable native  
XML database engine available today.

The important new features and benefits of Berkeley DB XML 2.2.8  
include:

   1. Support for the April 2005 drafts of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0
   2. Node level indexes which improve query performance,
      especially for large XML documents
   3. Optimized query plan generation and intelligent indexing
   4. Streamlined path expression evaluation and predicate evaluation
   5. Optimized resource utilization, especially for node storage
   6. Efficient type casting
   7. New index lookup functions

To see the change log for version 2.2.8, please visit:

     http://www.sleepycat.com/xml_update/2.2.8/if.2.2.8.html

For information about the upgrade requirements for 2.2.8, please see:

     http://www.sleepycat.com/xml_update/2.2.8/relnote.2.2.8.html


Licensing

Berkeley DB XML is an open source, dual-license product.  For more  
information on our license please read:

     http://www.sleepycat.com/company/licensing.html

For further information, please contact us at [email protected]


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Sleepycat Software offers a range of support offerings for both our  
commercial and open source customers.  If you need help during any  
stage of development or into production, we have a support package to  
meet your needs.  Please take a moment to review our offerings at:

     http://www.sleepycat.com/services/support.html

As always, if you have technical questions, send email to:  
[email protected] or use our online support request form (http:// 
dev.sleepycat.com/support/rs.html).  But before you send email take a  
quick look at out FAQ section (http://dev.sleepycat.com/resources/ 
faq_search.html?action=search), and be sure to review our  
documentation (http://dev.sleepycat.com/documentation/bdbxml.html).


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Sleepycat's mission is to provide the fastest, most reliable and  
scalable transactional database for developers.  Our products include:
   ** Berkeley DB - With over 200 million active deployments in use
      today, it's hard to make it through the day without somehow
      coming in contact with something that relies on Berkeley DB.
   ** Berkeley DB XML - A native XML database with an optimized
      XQuery access layer built atop Berkeley DB.
   ** Berkeley DB Java Edition - A pure Java version of Berkeley DB.
If you're building a software product or system that requires  
dependable data storage, you owe it to yourself to evaluate our  
software libraries.  Chances are one of our database engines will  
suit your needs.

regards,

-greg

_____________________________________________________________________
Gregory Burd
Product Manager                         [email protected]
Sleepycat Software, Inc.                http://www.sleepycat.com/