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XPath or SQL2?

  • December 22, 2018
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Which is the recommend query language in AEM's current lifecycle: XPath or SQL2?

One HelpX article (with a timestamp of 2018 but that does not appear to have been updated since 6.3) says XPath over SQL2

Oak Queries and Indexing

While a HelpX resource with an earlier timestamp of 2017 says SQL2 over XPath

Describing the JCR model in Adobe Experience Manager | at 2:15

Which is the correct recommendation and why?

Thanks in advance!

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    Best answer by joerghoh

    At the moment there is no clear recommendation. Both are supported and the performance of both is comparable. From a specification point of view XPath is deprecated, but the Oak team made the statement at some occassions that they don't plan to drop XPath support.

    Jörg

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    joerghoh
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    joerghohAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
    Adobe Employee
    December 23, 2018

    At the moment there is no clear recommendation. Both are supported and the performance of both is comparable. From a specification point of view XPath is deprecated, but the Oak team made the statement at some occassions that they don't plan to drop XPath support.

    Jörg

      ariellea4070516
      ariellea4070516Author
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      December 24, 2018

      Thanks, Jörg!

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