# eXistdb Reviews
**Vendor:** eXist Solutions  
**Category:** [XML Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/xml-databases)  
**Average Rating:** 3.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About eXistdb
eXistdb is a NoSQL document database and application platform.




## eXistdb Reviews
  ### 1. ExistDB: Empowering Data Management with Flexibility

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2023

**What do you like best about eXistdb?**

Very flexible data handling options combined with great analytics.

**What do you dislike about eXistdb?**

More documentation, guides, and more accessible support when there is an issue.

**What problems is eXistdb solving and how is that benefiting you?**

XQuery Update Facility (XUF) capabilities allow for quick changes from existdb without needing to modify the native database.

  ### 2. eXist-db is a full stack environment for XML database.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alfredo C. | devOps engineer, Education Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2020

**What do you like best about eXistdb?**

Not just an XML-DBMS but a simple and immediate working environment, eXist-db is an application server to create and consume your XML sources. 
Written in Java, it is fully cross-platform, the requirements, as reported in the manual, are just:
          --> At least Java version 8 (since eXist-db 3.0)
          -->About 200Mb of disk space for the installation
          -->At least 512Mb memory to run [for a very basic server don't run with less than 4Gb of dedicated RAM] 

Full of samples and well documented, with a strong community on the back.
You can run a full web environment, and expose your XML sources with a few effort.
Exist-db embeds Apache Lucene, so It is easy to integrate powerful search functions for your sources.
You can manage your xml-db and the web environment with a native xQuery/xPath implementation: a complete set of functions to scan, write or edit xml, to admin the application server or manage web pages. 
You can write and deploy your app with a built-in editor: eXide.
You can monitor your performances with a built-in dashboard: Monex.
Exist-db has a built in REST-Style Web API,  which provides a simple and quick way to access the database. To use this API, all one needs is an HTTP client, which is provided by nearly all programming languages and environments.

As final note I have to say that the eXist-db community has a lot of interest in the TEI project, this is a merit point for adopting it in Digital Humanities projects.

**What do you dislike about eXistdb?**

Not always stable, you'll need a deep profiling of Java resource balancer to go in production.
Sometimes more verbose examples would be welcome.

**Recommendations to others considering eXistdb:**

Learn good xQuery and the eXist-db implementation of it. 
Use samples and documentation.
Contact the community if you need.

**What problems is eXistdb solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It has been the way to expose tons of XML files created in the past.
I used exist-db also to build CRUD interfaces to write or query TEI-XML files.
My last application under eXist-db is ARACNE - https://github.com/orazionelson/aracne - : a web framework to create and manage TEI collections.


## eXistdb Discussions
  - [What is eXistdb used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/existdb-what-is-existdb-used-for)
  - [What is eXistdb used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-existdb-used-for)

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## eXistdb Features
**Database Features**
- Storage
- Availability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Security
- Data Manipulation
- Query Language

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