MODIS team members took part in SYRCoDIS 2007 in Moscow, Russia. Denis Turdakov gave a talk on recommender system based on user-generated content. Roman Pastukhov gave a talk on full-text search queries support in native XML databases.

Sedna XML DBMS version 2.0 is released and published on the Web. See the Sedna home page.

University of Alberta's Office of the Provost has developed and deployed a database application for searching academic awards and the University's recipients of these awards, using the Sedna XML database. The information in the awards database is stored and indexed in Sedna XML database to provide powerful search capabilities available at https://gandalf.registrar.ualberta.ca/Awards/html/teachingawards.html. The content of the awards database can be edited via internal administrative interface powered by Sedna update facilities.

OmniMark version 8, the world's leading Content Processing platform, includes support for Sedna via the OmniMark database interface library (OMDB). Integrating Sedna support into OmniMark allows OmniMark developers to leverage the full power of XQuery and XML databases in content engineering applications. More information on Sedna and OmniMark integration can be found in OmniMark 8 release notes.

Peter Pleshachkov gave a talk on Fine-grained Concurrency Control in XML databases, ADBIS 2005 , Estonia, Tallinn

Leonid Novak gave a talk on formal description of XML data model, ADBIS 2005, Estonia, Tallinn

Maxim Grinev gave a talk on optimization of XQuery transformational queries at 9th International Database Engineering & Application Symposium (IDEAS 2005), Montreal, Canada.

Maria Rekouts gave a talk on integrity constraints suport for XML databases by means of active rules at DEXA Workshop on Logical Aspects and Applications of Integrity Constraints, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Peter Pleshachkov gave a talk on DataGuide-based concurrency control in XML DBMS, BNCOD 2005, England, Sunderland

MODIS team members took part in SYRCoDIS 2005 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Peter Pleshachkov gave a take on concurrency control in XML DBMS. Maria Rekouts gave a talk on trigger support in XML DBMS.

Leonid Novak gave a talk on Algebraic Semantics of XML Schema, XSDM 2005, Japan, Tokio

Sedna XML DBMS version 0.4 is released and published on the Web. Now Sedna supports value indices, regular expressions and SQL connection. See the Sedna home page.

Sedna XML DBMS version 0.3 is released and published on the Web. Now Sedna supports Linux platform. See the Sedna home page.

Andrey Fomichev gave a talk on memory management in Sedna at Moscow ACM SIGMOD seminar, Moscow, Russia.

Sedna goes open source under Apache 2.0 license. See the Sedna home page.

A new paper “Sedna: Technical Features and Use-cases” (in Russian) has been published at Open System Magazine #08/2004. The paper is available at this link.

Dmitry Lizorkin gave a talk on XQuery function inlining at ADBIS 2004, Budapest, Hungary. You can find paper on this here.

Sedna XML DBMS version 0.2 is released and published on the Web. See the Sedna home page.

Sedna XML DBMS version 0.1 is released and published on the Web. See the Sedna home page.