Database Module

This XQuery Module contains functions for processing databases from within XQuery. Existing databases can be opened and listed, its contents can be directly accessed, documents can be added to and removed, etc.

Conventions

All functions and errors in this module are assigned to the http://basex.org/modules/db namespace, which is statically bound to the db prefix.

Database Nodes

In BaseX, two internal representations exist for nodes.

• XML fragments are generated by XQuery node constructors.db:b
• Database nodes are:
  • stored in a persistent database on disk;
  • nodes of a document that has been generated temporarily with fn:doc, fn:parse-xml and other functions; or
  • result of a main-memory update operation.

Some operations are restricted to database nodes, but you can convert XML fragments to database nodes by applying an empty update or transform operation to a node. Two examples:

• Retrieve the internal node id of an XML fragment:

let $xml := <xml>hello world</xml> update {}
return db:node-id($xml/text())

• Puts a marker element around the result of a full-text request (see ft:mark for more details):

copy $p := <xml>hello world</xml>
modify ()
return ft:mark($p[text() contains text 'word'], 'b')

Updating Functions

Various functions in this module are updating. Updating functions will not be immediately executed, but queued on the Pending Update List, and processed after the remaining query has been evaluated. This means that the order in which the functions are specified in the query often does not reflect the order in which they will eventually be executed.

General Functions

db:system

Signatures	db:system() as element(system)
Summary	Returns general information on the database system the current values of all global and local Options. The INFO command returns similar output.

db:option

Signatures	db:option($name as xs:string) as xs:string
Summary	Returns the current value (string, integer, boolean, map) of a global or local Option with the specified $name. The GET command works similar.
Errors	option: the specified option is unknown.
Examples	db:option('dbpath') returns the database path string. db:option('serializer') returns a map with the current serialization parameters. declare option db:chop 'true'; db:option('chop') returns true (irrespective of the global value).

db:info

Signatures	db:info($db as xs:string) as element(database)
Summary	Returns meta information on the database $db. The output is similar to the INFO DB command.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.

db:property

Signatures	db:property($db as xs:string, $name as xs:string) as xs:anyAtomicType
Summary	Returns the value (string, boolean, integer) of a property with the specified $name in the database $db. The available properties are the ones returned by db:info.
Errors	property: the specified property is unknown.
Examples	db:property('db', 'size') returns the number of bytes occupied by the database db. db:property('xmark', 'textindex') indicates if the xmark database has a text index. db:property('discogs', 'uptodate') indicates if the database statistics and index structures of the discogs database are up-to-date.

db:list

Signatures	db:list() as xs:string* db:list($db as xs:string) as xs:string* db:list($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as xs:string*
Summary	The result of this function is dependent on the number of arguments: Without arguments, the names of all databases are returned that are accessible to the current user. If a database $db is specified, all documents and raw files of the specified database are returned. The list of returned resources can be restricted by the $path argument.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.
Examples	db:list("docs") returns the names of all documents of a database named docs.

db:list-details

Signatures	db:list-details() as element(database)* db:list-details($db as xs:string) as element(resource)* db:list-details($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as element(resource)*
Summary	Without arguments, an element is returned for each database that is accessible to the current user: An element has a value, which is the name of the database, and several attributes, which contain the number of stored resources, the modification date, the database size on disk (measured in bytes), and a path to the original database input. If a database $db is specified, an element for each documents and raw file of the specified database is returned: An element has a value, which is the name of the resource, and several attributes, which contain the content type, the modification date, the raw flag (which indicates if the resource is binary or XML), and the size of a resource. The value of the size attribute depends on the resource type: for documents, it represents the number of nodes; for binary data, it represents the file size (measured in bytes). Returned databases resources can be further restricted by the $path argument.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.
Examples	db:list-details("shop") returns the names plus additional info on all resources of a database named shop.

db:dir

Signatures	db:dir($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as element()*
Summary	Returns meta data on all directories and resources of the database $db in the specified directory $path. Two types of elements are returned: resource represents a resource. The element value is the directory path; content type, modification date, raw flag (which indicates if the resource is binary or XML), and size of the resource are returned as attributes. dir represents a directory. The element value is the directory path; the modification date is returned as attribute. Please note that directories are not stored in BaseX. Instead, they result implicitly from the paths of stored resources.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. path: the specified path is invalid.
Examples	db:dir('shop', 'books') returns all entries of the books directory of a shop database.

Read Operations

db:open

Signatures	db:open($db as xs:string) as document-node()* db:open($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as document-node()*
Summary	Opens the database $db and returns all document nodes. The document nodes to be returned can be filtered with the $path argument.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.
Examples	db:open("docs") returns all documents from the database named docs. db:open("db", "one") returns all documents from the database named db located in the path one. for $i in 1 to 3 return db:open("db" || $i)//item returns all item elements from the databases db1, db2 and db3.

db:open-pre

Signatures	db:open-pre($db as xs:string, $pres as xs:integer*) as node()*
Summary	Opens the database $db and returns all distinct nodes with the pre values $pres in document order. The PRE value provides very fast access to an existing database node, but it will change whenever a node with a smaller pre values is added to or deleted from a database.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. range: the specified pre value does not exist in the database.
Examples	db:open-pre("docs", 0) returns the first database node from the database named docs.

db:open-id

Signatures	db:open-id($db as xs:string, $ids as xs:integer*) as node()*
Summary	Opens the database $db and returns all distinct nodes with the specified $ids in document order. Each database node has a persistent ID value. Access to the node id can be sped up by turning on the UPDINDEX option.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. range: the specified id value does not exist in the database.

db:node-pre

Signatures	db:node-pre($nodes as node()*) as xs:integer*
Summary	Returns the pre values of the specified $nodes, which must all be database nodes. The PRE value provides very fast access to an existing database node, but it will change whenever a node with a smaller pre values is added to or deleted from a database.
Errors	node: $nodes contains a node which is not stored in a database.
Examples	db:node-pre(doc("input")) returns 0 if the database input contains a single document.

db:node-id

Signatures	db:node-id($nodes as node()*) as xs:integer*
Summary	Returns the id values of the specified $nodes, which must all be database nodes. Each database node has a persistent ID value. Access to the node id can be sped up by turning on the UPDINDEX option.
Errors	node: $nodes contains a node which is not stored in a database.

db:retrieve

Signatures	db:retrieve($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as xs:base64Binary
Summary	Returns a binary resource addressed by the database $db and $path as streamable xs:base64Binary.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. mainmem: the database is not persistent (stored on disk).
Examples	db:retrieve("DB", "music/01.mp3") returns the specified audio file as raw data. stream:materialize(db:retrieve("DB", "music/01.mp3")) materializes the streamable result in main-memory before returning it. convert:binary-to-string(db:retrieve("DB", "info.txt"), 'UTF-8') converts a binary database resource as UTF-8 text and returns a string.

db:export

Signatures	db:export($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as empty-sequence() db:export($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string, $params as item()) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Exports the specified database $db to the specified file $path. Existing files will be overwritten. The $params argument contains serialization parameters. As with fn:serialize(), the parameters can be specified either as children of an <output:serialization-parameters/> element: <output:serialization-parameters> <output:method value='xml'/> <output:cdata-section-elements value="div"/> ... </output:serialization-parameters> or as map, which contains all key/value pairs: map { "method": "xml", "cdata-section-elements": "div", ... }
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.
Examples	Export all files as text: db:export("DB", "/home/john/xml/texts", map { 'method': 'text' }) The following query can be used to export parts of the database: let $target := '/home/john/xml/target' for $doc in db:open('DB', 'collection') let $path := $target || db:path($doc) return ( file:create-dir(file:parent($path)), file:write($path, $doc) )

Value Indexes

db:text

Signatures	db:text($db as xs:string, $strings as xs:string*) as text()*
Summary	Returns all text nodes of the database $db that have one of the specified $strings as values and that are stored in the text index.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. no-index: the index is not available.
Examples	db:text("DB", "QUERY")/.. returns the parents of all text nodes of the database DB that match the string QUERY.

db:text-range

Signatures	db:text-range($db as xs:string, $min as xs:string, $max as xs:string) as text()*
Summary	Returns all text nodes of the database $db whose values are between $min and $max and that are stored in the text index.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. no-index: the index is not available.
Examples	db:text-range("DB", "2000", "2001") returns all text nodes of the database DB that are found in between 2000 and 2001.

db:attribute

Signatures	db:attribute($db as xs:string, $strings as xs:string*) as attribute()* db:attribute($db as xs:string, $strings as xs:string*, $name as xs:string) as attribute()*
Summary	Returns all attribute nodes of the database $db that have one of the specified $strings as values and that are stored in the attribute index. If $name is specified, the resulting attribute nodes are filtered by their attribute name.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. no-index: the index is not available.
Examples	db:attribute("DB", "QUERY", "id")/.. returns the parents of all id attribute nodes of the database DB that have QUERY as string value.

db:attribute-range

Signatures	db:attribute-range($db as xs:string, $min as xs:string, $max as xs:string) as attribute()* db:attribute-range($db as xs:string, $min as xs:string, $max as xs:string, $name as xs:string) as attribute()*
Summary	Returns all attributes of the database $db, the string values of which are larger than or equal to $min and smaller than or equal to $max and that are stored in the attribute index.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. no-index: the index is not available.
Examples	db:attribute-range("DB", "id456", "id473", 'id') returns all @id attributes of the database DB that have a string value in between id456 and id473.

db:token

Signatures	db:token($db as xs:string, $tokens as xs:string*) as attribute()* db:token($db as xs:string, $tokens as xs:string*, $name as xs:string) as attribute()*
Summary	Returns all attribute nodes of the database $db the values of which contain one of the specified $tokens. If $name is specified, the resulting attribute nodes are filtered by their attribute name.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. no-index: the index is not available.
Examples	db:token("DB", "row", "class")/parent::div returns all div nodes of database DB with a class attribute that contains the token row.

Updates

All functions in this section are updating functions.

db:create

Signatures	db:create($db as xs:string) as empty-sequence() db:create($db as xs:string, $inputs as item()*) as empty-sequence() db:create($db as xs:string, $inputs as item()*, $paths as xs:string*) as empty-sequence() db:create($db as xs:string, $inputs as item()*, $paths as xs:string*, $options as map(*)?) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Creates a new database with name $db and adds initial documents specified via $inputs to the specified $paths: $inputs may be strings or nodes: nodes may be of any type except for attributes strings can be a URI pointing to a file/directory or an XML string (which is detected by the leading < character) a path must be specified if the input is not a file or directory reference The parsing and indexing behavior can be controlled via $options: allowed options are ADDCACHE and the indexing, full-text indexing, parsing and XML parsing options, all in lower case parsing options will only impact string input (URIs, XML strings), because nodes have already been parsed. An existing database will be overwritten. Database creation takes place after most other update operations (see Pending Update List). As a consequence, a newly created database cannot be addressed in the same query.
Errors	lock: a database is opened by another process. name: the specified name is not a valid database name. conflict: the same database was addressed more than once. args: the number of specified inputs and paths differs.
Examples	db:create("DB") creates the empty database DB. db:create("DB", "/home/dir/doc.xml") creates the database DB and adds the document /home/dir/doc.xml as initial content. db:create("DB", <a/>, "doc.xml") creates the database DB and adds the document with content <a/> under the name doc.xml. db:create("DB", "/home/dir/", "docs/dir") creates the database DB and adds the documents in /home/dir to the database under the path docs/dir. db:create("DB", file:list('.'), (), map { 'ftindex': true() }) adds all files of the current working directory to a new database, preserving relative filesystem paths and creating a full-text index.

db:drop

Signatures	db:drop($db as xs:string) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Drops the database $db and all connected resources.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. lock: a database is opened by another process. conflict: the same database was addressed more than once.
Examples	db:drop("DB") drops the database DB.

db:add

Signatures	db:add($db as xs:string, $input as item()) as empty-sequence() db:add($db as xs:string, $input as item(), $path as xs:string?) as empty-sequence() db:add($db as xs:string, $input as item(), $path as xs:string?, $options as map(*)?) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Adds documents specified by $input to the database $db with the specified $path: A document with the same path may occur more than once in a database. If you want to enforce single instances, use db:replace instead. See db:create for more details on the input and path arguments. The parsing behavior can be controlled via $options: allowed options are ADDCACHE and the parsing and XML parsing options, all in lower case parsing options will only impact string input (URIs, XML strings), because nodes have already been parsed
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.
Examples	db:add("DB", "/home/dir/doc.xml") adds the file /home/dir/doc.xml to the database DB. db:add("DB", <a/>, "doc.xml") adds a document node to the database DB under the name doc.xml. db:add("DB", "/home/dir", "docs/dir", map { 'addcache': true() }) adds all documents in /home/dir to the database DB under the path docs/dir. In order to reduce memory consumption, the files will be cached before being added to the database.

db:delete

Signatures	db:delete($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Deletes resource(s), specified by $path, from the database $db.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. path: the specified path is invalid.
Examples	db:delete("DB", "docs/dir/doc.xml") deletes the resource docs/dir/doc.xml from DB. db:delete("DB", "docs/dir") deletes all resources from DB in the specified path docs/dir.

db:copy

Signatures	db:copy($db as xs:string, $name as xs:string) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Creates a copy of the database $db, which will be called $name.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. lock: a database is opened by another process. name: invalid database name. conflict: the same database was addressed more than once.

db:alter

Signatures	db:alter($db as xs:string, $name as xs:string) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Renames the database $db to $name.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. lock: a database is opened by another process. name: invalid database name. conflict: the same database was addressed more than once.

db:optimize

Signatures	db:optimize($db as xs:string) as empty-sequence() db:optimize($db as xs:string, $all as xs:boolean) as empty-sequence() db:optimize($db as xs:string, $all as xs:boolean, $options as map(*)?) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Optimizes the meta data and indexes of the database $db. If $all is true, the complete database will be rebuilt. The $options argument can be used to control indexing. The syntax is identical to the db:create function: Allowed options are all indexing and full-text options. UPDINDEX is only supported if $all is true.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.
Examples	db:optimize("DB") optimizes the database structures of the database DB. db:optimize("DB", true(), map { 'ftindex': true() }) optimizes all database structures of the database DB and creates a full-text index.

db:rename

Signatures	db:rename($db as xs:string, $source as xs:string, $target as xs:string) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Moves all resources(s) of database $db, which are found in the supplied $source path, to the supplied $target path. The paths may point to single resources or directories. No updates will take place if a non-existing source path is supplied.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. path: the specified source or target path, or one of its descendants, is invalid.
Examples	db:rename("DB", "docs/dir/doc.xml", "docs/dir/newdoc.xml") renames the resource docs/dir/doc.xml to docs/dir/newdoc.xml in the database DB. db:rename("DB", "docs/dir", "docs/newdir") moves all resources in the database DB from docs/dir to {Code|docs/newdir}}.

db:replace

Signatures	db:replace($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string, $input as item()) as empty-sequence() db:replace($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string, $input as item(), $options as map(*)?) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Replaces a resource, specified by $path, in the database $db with the contents of $input, or adds it as a new resource: See db:create for more details on the input argument. The parsing behavior can be controlled via $options: allowed options are ADDCACHE and the parsing and XML parsing options, all in lower case parsing options will only impact string input (URIs, XML strings), because nodes have already been parsed For historical reasons, the order of the 2nd and 3rd argument is different to db:add and db:create
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. target: the path points to a directory.
Examples	db:replace("DB", "docs/dir/doc.xml", "/home/dir/doc.xml") replaces the content of the document docs/dir/doc.xml in the database DB with the content of the file /home/dir/doc.xml. db:replace("DB", "docs/dir/doc.xml", "<a/>") replaces the content of the document docs/dir/doc.xml in the database DB with <a/>. db:replace("DB", "docs/dir/doc.xml", document { <a/> }) replaces the content of the document docs/dir/doc.xml in the database DB with the specified document node. The following query can be used to import files from a directory to a database: let $source := '/home/john/xml/source' for $file in file:list($source, true()) let $path := $source || $file where not(file:is-dir($path)) return db:replace('db', $file, doc($path))

db:store

Signatures	db:store($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string, $input as item()) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Replaces a binary resource specified by $input in the database $db and the location specified by $path, or adds it as new resource.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. mainmem: the database is not persistent (stored on disk).
Examples	db:store("DB", "video/sample.mov", file:read-binary('video.mov')) stores the addressed video file at the specified location. With the following query, you can copy full directories: let $db := 'db' let $src-path := 'src/' let $trg-path := 'trg/' for $src in db:list($db, $src-path) where db:is-raw($db, $src) let $trg := $trg-path || substring-after($src, $src-path) return db:store($db, $trg, db:retrieve($db, $src))

db:flush

Signatures	db:flush($db as xs:string) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Explicitly flushes the buffers of the database $db. This command is only useful if AUTOFLUSH has been set to false.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.

Backups

Introduced with Version 10: Support for general data (registered users, scheduled services and key-value stores).

All functions in this section except for db:backups are updating functions.

db:create-backup

Updated with Version 10: Options argument added.

Signatures	db:create-backup($db as xs:string) as empty-sequence() db:create-backup($db as xs:string, $options as map(*)) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Creates a backup of the database $db. If no name is supplied, general data will be backed up. The following $options are available: With comment, a comment string can be attached to the backup. By setting compress to false, the backup will be created faster, but it will take more space on disk.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened. name: invalid database name. conflict: the same database was addressed more than once.
Examples	db:create-backup('DB', map { 'compress': false() }) creates a backup of the database DB without compressing its entries.

db:drop-backup

Signatures	db:drop-backup($name as xs:string) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Drops all backups of the database with the specified $name. If the name ends with a timestamp, only the specified backup file will be deleted. If no name is supplied, backups with general data are addressed.
Errors	backup: No backup file found. name: invalid database name. conflict: the same database was addressed more than once.
Examples	db:drop-backup("DB") drops all backups of the database DB. db:drop-backup("DB-2014-03-13-17-36-44") drops the specific backup file DB-2014-03-13-17-36-44.zip of the database DB.

db:alter-backup

Signatures	db:alter-backup($name as xs:string, $new-name as xs:string) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Renames all backups of the database with the specified $name to $new-name. If the name ends with a date, only the specified backup file will be renamed.
Errors	backup: No backup file found. name: invalid database name. conflict: the same database was addressed more than once.
Examples	db:alter-backup("DB", "DB2) renames all backups of the database DB to DB2.

db:restore

Signatures	db:restore($name as xs:string) as empty-sequence()
Summary	Restores the database with the specified $name. The $name may include the timestamp of the backup file. If no name is supplied, general data will be restored. If general data is restored, it will only be available after BaseX has been restarted.
Errors	lock: a database is opened by another process. name: invalid database name. no-backup: No backup found. conflict: the same database was addressed more than once.
Examples	db:restore("DB") restores the database DB. db:restore("DB-2014-03-13-18-05-45") restores the database DB from the backup file with the given timestamp.

db:backups

Signatures	db:backups() as element(backup)* db:backups($db as xs:string) as element(backup)*
Summary	Returns an element sequence containing all available database backups with timestamp, file size and comment. If a database $db is specified, the sequence will be restricted to the backups matching this database.
Examples	db:backups("factbook") returns all backups that have been made from the factbook database.

Helper Functions

db:name

Signatures	db:name($node as node()) as xs:string
Summary	Returns the name of the database in which the specified database node $node is stored.
Errors	node: $nodes contains a node which is not stored in a database.

db:path

Signatures	db:path($node as node()) as xs:string
Summary	Returns the path of the database document in which the specified database node $node is stored.
Errors	node: $nodes contains a node which is not stored in a database.

db:exists

Signatures	db:exists($db as xs:string) as xs:boolean db:exists($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as xs:boolean
Summary	Checks if the database $db or the resource specified by $path exists. false is returned if a database directory has been addressed.
Examples	db:exists("DB") returns true if the database DB exists. db:exists("DB", "resource") returns true if resource is an XML document or a raw file.

db:is-raw

Signatures	db:is-raw($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as xs:boolean
Summary	Checks if the specified resource in the database $db and the path $path exists, and if it is a binary resource.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.
Examples	db:is-raw("DB", "music/01.mp3") returns true.

db:is-xml

Signatures	db:is-xml($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as xs:boolean
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.
Summary	Checks if the specified resource in the database $db and the path $path exists, and if it is an XML document.
Examples	db:is-xml("DB", "dir/doc.xml") returns true.

db:content-type

Signatures	db:content-type($db as xs:string, $path as xs:string) as xs:string
Summary	Retrieves the content type of a resource in the database $db and the path $path. The file extension is used to recognize the content-type of a resource stored in the database. Content-type application/xml will be returned for any XML document stored in the database, regardless of its file name extension.
Errors	open: the addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.
Examples	db:content-type("DB", "docs/doc01.pdf") returns application/pdf. db:content-type("DB", "docs/doc01.xml") returns application/xml. db:content-type("DB", "docs/doc01") returns application/xml, if db:is-xml("DB", "docs/doc01") returns true.

Errors

Code	Description
args	The number of specified inputs and paths differs.
conflict	Multiple update operations point to the same target.
lock	A database cannot be updated because it is opened by another process.
mainmem	The addressed database is not persistent (stored on disk).
name	The name of the specified database is invalid.
no-backup	No backup exists for a database.
node	The referenced XML node is no database node, i.e. it is neither stored in a database nor represented as database fragment.
no-index	The database lacks an index structure required by the called function.
open	The addressed database does not exist or could not be opened.
option	The specified option is unknown.
path	The specified database path is invalid.
property	The specified database property is unknown.
range	The addressed database id or pre value is out of range.
target	Path points to an invalid target.

Changelog

Version 10

• Added: Backups: Support for general data (registered users, scheduled services and key-value stores).
• Updated: db:backups, db:create-backup: Options added.

Version 9.3

• Added: db:alter-backup
• Updated: db:open-id, db:open-pre: support for multiple integers

Version 9.2

• Added: db:dir
• Updated: db:add: $path allow empty path argument

Version 9.0

• Added: db:option
• Updated: db:output renamed to update:output, db:output-cache renamed to update:cache
• Updated: error codes updated; errors now use the module namespace

Version 8.6

• Added: db:property

Version 8.4

• Updated: db:create, db:add, db:replace: support for ADDCACHE option.
• Added: db:token

Version 8.3

• Updated: db:list-details: attributes with name of database and date of backup added to results.
• Updated: db:backups now include attributes with name of database and date of backup.
• Updated: Value Indexes: raise error if no index exists.

Version 8.2

• Added: db:output-cache
• Removed: db:event

Version 7.9

• Updated: parsing options added to db:create, db:add and db:replace.
• Updated: allow UPDINDEX if $all is true.

Version 7.8.2

• Added: db:alter, db:copy, db:create-backup, db:drop-backup, db:restore

Version 7.8

• Removed: db:fulltext (use ft:search instead)

Version 7.7

• Added: db:export, db:name, db:path
• Updated: $options argument added to db:create and db:optimize.
• Updated: the functions no longer accept Database Nodes as reference. Instead, the name of a database must now be specified.

Version 7.6

• Updated: db:create: allow more than one input and path.

Version 7.5

• Updated: db:add: input nodes will be automatically converted to document nodes
• Added: db:backups
• Added: db:create
• Added: db:drop

Version 7.3

• Added: db:flush

Version 7.2.1

• Added: db:text-range, db:attribute-range, db:output

Version 7.1

• Added: db:list-details, db:content-type
• Updated: db:info, db:system, db:retrieve

Version 7.0

• Added: db:retrieve, db:store, db:exists, db:is-raw, db:is-xml
• Updated: db:list, db:open, db:add