Adam Retter

adam@evolvedbinary.com
 

XML Prague
@ University of Economics, Prague
2026-06-05

@adamretter

• Director of Evolved Binary

  • UK - Software, Consultancy, Training, and R&D

• Co-founder and Co-owner of eXist Solutions

  • Germany - TEI Publisher software

• Software Engineer / Prolific Open Source contributor

  • Elemental (NoSQL/XMLDB) - Founder

  • eXist-db - 20 Years as Core contributor (last 9 as main dev.)

  • RocksDB - 8 Years as RocksJava main developer

• W3C XQuery Working Group - Invited Expert

• Founder of EXQuery, and creator of RESTXQ

• Enjoys Research and Development, and Snowboarding

RocksDB

www.elemental.xyz

• The first 6 months:

  • Fixing bugs and preparing to release

  • Two lines of development:

    • 6.x.x versions - Java 8

    • 7.x.x versions - Java 21

• First Release - 26 April 2025

  • Version 6.4.0

  • Version 7.0.0 - major enhancements and new features

• Maximum release window: 2 months!

• 20 releases (since April 2025)

• 14 kind (external) contributors have helped

• ETA - July/August 2026

• Java 25

• Improved Full-Text Search

  • XQuery Full Text Extensions

  • Apache Lucene 10

• Improved XSLT Support (Saxon 13)

• New HTTP Server

• Improved Performance

• Reduced Memory Footprint

• ETA - Q4 2026

• AI (LLM) Compatible

  • Vector Storage

  • Retrieval Augmented Generation

  • Model Content Protocol Server

• New DOM Implementations

• Simplified Configuration

• Structured Logging

• EXPath Packaging 2.0

• EXQuery RESTXQ 2.0

• Security cleared for Government Projects (UK and USA)

  • UK Gov Marketplace (G-Cloud 14)

  • USA System for Award Management (Sam.gov)

• For Academia and Non-profit organisations

  • We have always, and continue to, offer generous discounts

• Come and talk to us: hello@evolvedbinary.com

• Join the community: github.com/evolvedbinary/elemental

“ We deeply care about the Software Communities and Open Source efforts that we are involved in.

We believe that Conferences are essential to the XML Community, and we support as many such conferences as possible. ”

- Adam Retter