XArch is an archive management system that allows one to create, populate,
and query archives of multiple database versions. XArch is based on a nested
merge approach that efficiently stores multiple database versions in a compact
archive. The system allows one to create new archives, to merge new versions of
data into existing archives, and execute both snapshot and temporal queries using
a declarative query language.
XArch has an extensible IO layer and is currently capable of
archiving data in XML format as well as relational databases. Please refer to the Web
pages for more documentation and examples
on how to archive data in either of these formats. Internally, archives are stored and
output in XML format.
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XArch has been implemented at the
University of Edinburgh Database Group and is available for free download. For further
information about how to install and use XArch please refer to the
Documentation page.
For further information about the structure of XArch, algorithm for merging
multiple document versions into a single archive, for links to the relevant
scientific publications, and a discussion of open research problems please
refer to the Research page.
If you have any further questions or comments regarding XArch please contact
Heiko Müller.
This work was supported by
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