development status

[Ferenc Pápai <fp...@gmail.com>]

hello XIndice team,

May I ask what is the development status of the project?
The last svn commit happened 5 month ago, contributors are less and less...

We used XIndice for the last 5 years. It served us pretty well, however we
started to have scalability issues lately due to large amount of data. I am
afraid that we might need to jump to another database if there won't be new
developments.

So far we use version 1.1 but found bugs in it that seems to be corrected in
1.2m1.
Would you recommend the use of 1.2m1 in production environment?

thanks for your time
Ferenc

[ANN]VTD-XML 2.7

[jimmy Zhang <cr...@comcast.net>]

VTD-XML 2.7 (http://vtd-xml.sf.net) is released and can be downloaded at

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Below is a summary of what are the new features and enhancements.

Expanded VTD-XML's Core API

  a.. VTDNav: toStringUpperCase, toStringLowerCase, contains(), endsWith(),
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Improved Xpath
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  b.. Added support for variable reference * significantly enhanced XPath
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  c.. Internal performance tuning Bug fixes and

Code Enhancement
  a.. C version significantly removed warning message, fix memory leak 
during  Xpath expression parsing,
  b.. Various bug fies (Special thanks to Jon Roberts, John Zhu, Matej 
Spiller,  Steve Polson, and Romain La Tellier)

Re: development status

[Vadim Gritsenko <va...@reverycodes.com>]

On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Ferenc Pápai wrote:

> hello XIndice team,

Hi Ferenc,

That's "Xindice" - lowercase "i" ;-)


> May I ask what is the development status of the project?
> The last svn commit happened 5 month ago, contributors are less and  
> less...
>
> We used XIndice for the last 5 years. It served us pretty well,  
> however we started to have scalability issues lately due to large  
> amount of data. I am afraid that we might need to jump to another  
> database if there won't be new developments.

People come and people go, and development depends on desires and  
needs of people like you and me. All people can contribute to any of  
the Apache projects, and there are many ways to do it. Those who can  
code can send patches to make improvements, and those who can not can  
send bug reports or suggestions or help with testing.

Since you are seeing scalability issues, you are in a good position to  
contribute something back to Xindice - you can get the latest Xindice  
code from the SVN and see how your database runs there. There were few  
modifications since the latest release which should make Xindice run  
faster on larger databases. If you are still experiencing scalability  
issues even with the latest version, then, depending on your  
abilities, you can either develop a patch to the Xindice or help other  
developers identify the problem and fix this performance issue.


> So far we use version 1.1 but found bugs in it that seems to be  
> corrected in 1.2m1.
> Would you recommend the use of 1.2m1 in production environment?

It mostly depends on you. Personally, I would run trunk version of  
Xindice, because it has several fixes on top of 1.2m1 release. If you  
don't need these fixes, you can run 1.2m1. Of course, regardless of  
what version you choose, you should test it before you put it in  
production.

Regards,
Vadim