eXist: A NoSQL Document Database and Application Platform

Geta head start with eXist, the open source NoSQL database and applicationdevelopment platform built entirely around XML technologies. With this hands-onguide, you’ll learn eXist from the ground up, from using this feature-richdatabase to work with millions of documents to building complex webapplications that take advantage of eXist’s many extensions.

Ifyou’re familiar with XML—as a student, professor, publisher, ordeveloper—you’ll find that eXist is ideal for all kinds of documents. This bookshows you how to store, query, and search documents with XQuery and other XMLtechnologies, and how to construct applications on top of the database withtools such as eXide and eXist’s built-in development environment.

• Manage both data-oriented and text-oriented markup documents securely
• Build a sample application that analyzes and searches Shakespeare’s plays
• Go inside the architecture and learn how eXist processes documents
• Learn how to work with eXist’s internal development environment
• Choose among various indexes, including a full-text index based on Apache Lucene
• Dive into eXist’s APIs for integrating or interacting with the database
• Extend eXist by building your own Triggers, Scheduled Tasks, and XQuery extension modules

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