SirixDB

Sirix is a storage system, which brings versioning to a sub-file granular level while taking full advantage of flash-based drives as for instance SSDs. As such per revision as well as per page deltas are stored. Currently, we provide several APIs which are layered. A very low level page-API, which handles the storage and retrieval of records on a per page-fragment level (whereas a buffer manager handles the caching of pages in memory and the versioning takes place even on a lower layer for storing and reconstructing the page-fragments in CPU-friendly algorithms), a cursor-based API to store and navigate through records (currently XML/XDM nodes) on top, a DOM-alike node layer for simple in-memory processing of these nodes, which is used by Brackit, a sophisticated XQuery processor. And last but not least a RESTful asynchronous HTTP-API. Our goal is to provide seamless integration of a native JSON layer besides the XML node layer, that is extending the XQuery Data Model (XDM) with other node types (support for JSONiq through the XQuery processor Brackit). In general, however, we could store every kind of data.