BaseX is both a lightweight, high-performance and scalable open source XML Database engine and XPath/XQuery 3.0 Processor, including full support for the W3C Update and Full Text extensions. An interactive and user-friendly GUI frontend gives you great insight into your XML documents.
It focuses on storing, querying, and visualizing large XML and JSON documents and collections. A visual frontend allows users to interactively explore data and evaluate queries in realtime (i.e., with each key click).
Apart from two local standalone modes, BaseX offers a client/server architecture to handle concurrent read and write operations of multiple users. BaseX is platform-independent.
Key Features
- High-performance database storage with text, attribute, full-text and path indexes.
- Efficient support of the W3C XPath/XQuery Recommendations and Full Text and Update Extensions.
- High compliance rates for all supported specifications.
- High XQuery Conformance: reaching 99.9% of the W3C XQuery Test Suite.
- Client/Server architecture, supporting ACID safe transactions, user management, logging.
- Highly interactive visualizations, supporting very large XML documents.
- Realtime XQuery editor available, with syntax highlighting and error feedback.
- API support: XQuery for Java (XQJ) and XML:DB (XAPI).
- Wide range of interfaces: REST/RESTXQ, WebDAV, XQJ, XML:DB; clients in many different languages.
Website: basex.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: BaseX Team
License: BSD License
BaseX is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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