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Performance

• Data Loading
  • Neither Could Handle the Complexity of the Manuscript Description Data
  • Adding Data Relatively Straightforward
  • Indexing Options
    • eXist - configuration files
    • DbXML declare indexing options on nodes
  • DTD validation support in eXist

Retrieval

• Comparisons using command-line Perl Scripts
• DbXML faster on large result sets (52518 unittitles)
• Queries with large results sets in eXist problematic in Cocoon
• eXist results always include an id and document identifier that facilites document retrieval