Storage Layout

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Data Types

The following data types are used for specifying the storage layout:

Type Description Example (native → hex integers)
Num Compressed integer (1-5 bytes), specified in Num.java 150F; 51141 FF
Token Length (Num) and bytes of UTF8 byte representation Hello05 48 65 6c 6c 6f
Double Number, stored as token 12303 31 32 33
Boolean Boolean (1 byte, 00 or 01) true01
Nums, Tokens, Doubles Arrays of values, introduced with the number of entries 1,202 01 31 01 32
TokenSet Key array (Tokens), next/bucket/size arrays (3x Nums)

Database Files

The following tables illustrate the layout of the BaseX database files. All files are suffixed with .basex.

Metadata, Name/Path/Doc Indexes: inf

Description Format
1. Metadata 1. Key/value pairs, in no particular order (Token/Token):
  • Examples: FNAME, TIME, SIZE, ...
  • PERM → Number of users (Num), and name/password/permission values for each user (Token/Token/Num)
2. Empty key as finalizer
2. Main memory indexes 1. Key/value pairs, in no particular order (Token/Token):
  • TAGS → Element Name Index
  • ATTS → Attribute Name Index
  • PATH → Path Index
  • NS → Namespaces
  • DOCS → Document Index
2. Empty key as finalizer
2 a) Name Index
Element/attribute names
1. Token set, storing all names (TokenSet)
2. One StatsKey instance per entry:
2.1. Content kind (Num):
2.1.1. Number: min/max (Doubles)
2.1.2. Category: number of entries (Num), entries (Tokens)
2.2. Number of entries (Num)
2.3. Leaf flag (Boolean)
2.4. Maximum text length (Double; legacy, could be Num)
2 b) Path Index 1. Flag for path definition (Boolean, always true; legacy)
2. PathNode:
2.1. Name reference (Num)
2.2. Node kind (Num)
2.3. Number of occurrences (Num)
2.4. Number of children (Num)
2.5. Double; legacy, can be reused or discarded
2.6. Recursive generation of child nodes (→ 2)
2 c) Namespaces 1. Token set, storing prefixes (TokenSet)
2. Token set, storing URIs (TokenSet)
3. NSNode:
3.1. pre value (Num)
3.2. References to prefix/URI pairs (Nums)
3.3. Number of children (Num)
3.4. Recursive generation of child nodes (→ 3)
2 d) Document Index Array of integers, representing the distances between all document pre values (Nums)

Node Table: tbl, tbli

  • tbl: Main database table, stored in blocks.
  • tbli: Database directory, organizing the database blocks.

Some more information on the node storage is available.

Texts: txt, atv

  • txt: Heap file for text values (document names, string values of texts, comments and processing instructions)
  • atv: Heap file for attribute values.

Value Indexes: txtl, txtr, atvl, atvr

Text Index:

  • txtl: Heap file with ID lists.
  • txtr: Index file with references to ID lists.

The Attribute Index is contained in the files atvl and atvr, the Token Index in tokl and tokr. All have the same layout.

For a more detailed discussion and examples of these file formats please see Index File Structure.

Document Path Index: pth

Provides an index of all the document paths in the database. For databases with a large number of paths this file can be quite large so it is only generated the first time a function requesting a path lookup is run. For databases where path lookups are never used this file will not exist.

Note: On Windows/Mac systems this file is case insensitive (all paths are lower case). On UNIX-like systems this file is case sensitive. The behaviour of path look ups will vary between systems. Copying this file between system types may lead to unexpected behaviour.

ID/Pre Mapping: idp

This file is only created if incremental indexing (UPDINDEX) is enabled for a database. It is used to provide a quick look up of the pre value for a database node id.

Full-Text Fuzzy Index: ftxx, ftxy, ftxz

...may soon be reimplemented.