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Components
The Ipedo XML Database is composed of several components and developer interfaces that allow you to quickly and easily build XML-based information management solutions:
Native XML Storage
- Hierarchical storage engine highly optimized for XML information
- Provides both document-level as well as node-level access to XML
- Allows you to organize XML documents by their schema
- Provides versioning capabilities that allow you to easily manage documents that are being maintained by multiple authors
- Provides enterprise-class capabilities including backup/restore, journaling, and bulk loading
Transaction Manager
- ACID-compliant to insure consistent performance for the most demanding applications
- Supports both whole-document as well as incremental node-level updates to XML
Cache Manager
- Advanced memory management technology keeps most often used information in memory for quick, efficient access
- XML caching is user configurable: move any collection of XML nodes into or out of memory dynamically to tweak performance
Index Manager
- Index any XML element, attribute, or path
- In-memory index support improves search performance
- Automatic index maintenance insures indexes are maintained across updates without requiring a manual index rebuild
Security Manager
- Manages access to system resources by providing username and password authentication XML Schema Manager
XML Schema Manager
- Manages the schema for document collections
- Performs incremental validation when information is updated to maintain conformance
- Supports schema evolution: documents are mapped into the new schema when changes are made
- Conformant to the DTD and XML Schema 1.0 specifications
XML Query Manager
- Supports the XPath and XQuery specifications
- Supports caching of query plans to improve search performance
- Easily perform single document as well as cross-document queries
XML Style Engine
- High-performance, scalable XSLT transformation engine built right into the server
- Supports the XSLT specification
- Integrates with the XML Query Manager to allow seamless transformation of query results
Web Services Interface
- Built-in SOAP server
- Access the database as a web service from any web services-compliant client
- Supports both J2EE-based and Microsoft .NET-based web services platforms
Java Interface
- 100% Pure Java API
- EJB interface allows for quick deployment in J2EE-compliant application servers
- Reduced footprint embedded server mode allows the entire server to be utilized in any Java application
Microsoft .NET Interface
- Native .NET assembly class library
- Full access from any .NET-compatible language
- Standard Microsoft .NET XML classes to process XML data and query results
Administrative Tools
- Ipedo Administrator Java-based graphical console allows for visual, user-friendly management of deployed servers
- Ipedo Commander provides a scriptable, command-based interface to easily support remote installations
System Requirements
- IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Windows NT, 2000, or XP
- 128 MB RAM minimum
- 50 MB disk space minimum
- Java(tm) 2 SDK 1.3.1 or higher
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