- From: Maxim Grinev <maxim@grinev.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:37:02 +0400
- To: <www-ql@w3.org>
We are pleased to announce a new version 0.5 of the Sedna XML database system with XQuery support. http://www.modis.ispras.ru/Development/sedna.htm New: - Support for transactions (rollback and concurrency control) - Support for database security (users and privileges) - Support for Unicode (utf8) - Support for XQuery external functions implemented in C (limited to deal with sequences of atomic values only) - Directory structure and file names changed according to "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard" (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html). - Support for the following standard XQuery functions is added: fn:string, fn:string-length, fn:concat, fn:data - Update language is extended with the replace statement - Parameters of DDL statements are now computable - No limitation on the size of an XQuery query - Sedna API driver for the Gambit-C implementation of Scheme - Sedna package for Alt Linux is now availible at http://altlinux.org/index.php?module=sisyphus&package=sedna (the package includes the previous version 0.4) - Bug fixes New contributions: - Sedna API driver for .Net (Thanks to John Wood) - Sedna API driver for Python (Thanks to Anton Akkuzin) - Sedna API driver for Chicken Scheme is packaged as an egg (Thanks to Felix Winkelmann) Maxim Grinev Sedna team
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