About the bulk export feature

The bulk export feature allows your application to perform a navigation query for a large number of records.

Each record in the resulting record set is returned from the MDEX Engine in a bulk-export-ready, gzipped format. The records can then be exported to external tools, such as a Microsoft Excel or a CSV (comma separated value) file.

Applications are typically limited in the number of records that can be requested by the memory requirements of the front-end application server. The bulk export feature adds a means of delaying parsing and ERec or AggrERec object instantiation, which allows front-end applications to handle requests for large numbers of records.