Oracle has released Berkeley DB XML 2.3.8, an open source "application-specific, embedded data manager for native XML data" based on Berkeley DB.

Oracle has released Berkeley DB XML 2.3.8, an open source "application-specific, embedded data manager for native XML data" based on Berkeley DB. It supports the recent proposed recommendations of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0. It includes C++, Java, Perl, Python, TCL and PHP APIs. According to the announcement, "This release of Berkeley DB XML improves many aspects of query planning and execution. Using indexed node storage, users will generally experience significant speed increase. A new event-style layer allows for tight coupling between Berkeley DB XML and other XML processing code. This greatly enhances integration with programming languages and XML parsing libraries by eliminating the need to create and then re-parse XML content. The W3C XQuery 1.0 specification is nearing completion and this release of Berkeley DB XML is compliant with the current Proposed Recommendation." More...