After 13 months of intensive development, a new version of the native Sedna XML-DBMS numbered 3.5 was published.
Sedna is designed to store and work with XML data and works with them in “native mode”. Sedna is written in C / C ++, distributed under all major platforms under the Apache 2.0 license. Both binary files for Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD and Solaris (x86 / x64), and source codes for self-assembly are available for download.

The project has been developed since 2003 to the present day by the team of developers of the information technology department of the Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Main features of Sedna DBMS:
- Distributed under the Apache License 2.0
- XQuery query language support compliant with the W3C XQuery Test Suite
- Full-text index support
- ACID support
- Support node update
- Able to do incremental backups on the fly
- Index support based on B-tree (there is also experimental support for one of the types of prefix trees developed specifically for Sedna, but it is not recommended to use it yet)
- UTF-8 support
- Multiple language drivers
- … and much more
List of changes:
- The native support for full-text indexes is implemented, so to use them you no longer need to buy a third-party dtSearch engine
- Improved CDATA support
- Added support for the cdata-section-elements option to serialize the output.
- Now you can only listen to requests on a specific interface.
- Optimized internal data presentation: now databases take up less space
- Optimized query execution mechanism
- Many bugs fixed in this release.
Read more about Sedna on
the project website .
You
can find out about the changes in the new release
here .
You can download the new release for the platform you are interested in on
the download page .
In addition, of course, you can tell us about bugs on our
bug tracker and subscribe to our
mailing list , and do not hesitate to ask questions.
If you already use our DBMS, then we would be very interested to learn about how you use it.
Update: In addition, we have a demo site where you can feel Sedna yourself using the example of Wikipedia. It is not known whether the site can withstand a large load, but I recommend trying:
wikixmldb.org