BrackitDB - XQuery-powered XML Database

BrackitDB is a transactional XML database.

Database Administration

You can start the database through a shell script.

bash ./bin/server

Hint: On UNIX-based systems you may want to make the script executable by issuing

chmod u+x ./bin/server

Creating an empty database

To use brackitdb the first time, you must create an empty database with the command bash

./bin/server install

When everything runs fine, you are ready to use brackitdb

Starting/stopping the database server

You can start the database by issuing

bash ./bin/server start

and stop it again with

bash ./bin/server stop

or by sending a SIGQUIT signal (Ctrl+D) to the server process.

The Command Line Processor

BrackitDB ships with a command line processor to issue queries against the database:

bash ./bin/server clp

Client programs

The database driver jar file brackitdb-driver-X.Y.Z.jar resides in the subdirectory ./brackitdb-driver/target/.

The following code fragment demonstrates how to connect to run queries against the database:

// open a new connection to a locally running brackitdb server
BrackitConnection con = new BrackitConnection("localhost", 11011);

try {
  // run a simple query
  // and write the result
  // to standard out
  con.query("1+1", System.out);
} finally {
  // close the connection again
  con.close();
}