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BaseX is a native, open-source XML database and efficient XPath/XQuery processor, including support for the latest Full Text and Update Recommendations. It supports very large XML instances and offers a highly interactive frontend. BaseX is written in Java and freely available for download. It is developed by the Database and Information Systems Group at the University of Konstanz.

News

BaseX 6.0 has been released! It offers quite a bunch of new features, such as:

• a full implementation of XQuery Update, reaching 100% in the W3C Test Suite.
• an enhanced client/server architecture with ACID-safe transactions, user and password management and transaction logging. » details
• extended XQuery Full Text features, supporting TF/IDF scoring, stop word lists, fuzzy querying, etc. » details
• the improved creation of index structures, using constant memory.
• optimizations to increase the use of index structures and iterative query processing.

Features

• Support of the W3C XPath/XQuery Recommendations and Full Text and Update Extensions.
  BaseX offers the most complete implementation of Full Text which is currently available.
• Compact database storage with text, attribute, full-text and path indexes.
• Client/Server architecture, supporting ACID safe transactions, user management, logging.
• Highly interactive visualizations, supporting very large XML documents.
• XQuery editor with syntax highlighting and error feedback.
• XQJ/XML:DB API support.

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If you find BaseX useful, don't hesitate to visit our Community section.