Optimizing XQuery in eXist-db
ebeshero opened this issue · comments
This will come up later in class as we all start working in our eXist XML database, but some of you returning students are working in eXist right now (@alnopa9 , @amberpeddicord , among others). Take a look at this advice for how to optimize your search queries to get speedy results (and put less strain on my server!):
http://exist-db.org/exist/apps/doc/tuning.xml#write
I'm filing this here to keep open for when the full class gets to work in our eXist-db later this semester.
One thing we could start learning and teaching here (note @frabbitry !) is the fairly recent group by option available for us in XQuery 3.0. It's a shorter and more efficient way of walking through for-loops with distinct-values(). Read about it in the link above, and let's maybe start testing it a bit and see if it's a good thing to teach this spring!