BaseX
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| Original author(s) | Christian Grün |
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| Developer(s) | BaseX Team |
| Initial release | 2007 |
| Stable release | 8.5.3
/ August 15, 2016 |
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| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English, German, Japanese, French, Italian, others |
| Type | XML database |
| License | BSD |
| Website | basex |
BaseX is a native and light-weight XML database management system and XQuery processor, developed as a community project on GitHub.[1] It is specialized in storing, querying, and visualizing large XML documents and collections.[2] BaseX is platform-independent and distributed under a permissive free software license.
In contrast to other document-oriented databases, XML databases provide support for standardized query languages such as XPath and XQuery. BaseX is highly conformant to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications[3][4] and the official Update and Full Text extensions. The included GUI enables users to interactively search, explore and analyze their data, and evaluate XPath/XQuery expressions in realtime (i.e., while the user types).
Technologies
- XPath query language
- XQuery 3.1
- XQuery Update 3.0 (W3C)
- XQuery Full Text 3.0 (W3C)
- Support for most EXPath/EXQuery modules and packaging system
- Client-Server architecture with user and transaction management and logging facilities
- APIs: RESTful API, WebDAV, XML:DB, XQJ;[5] Java, C#, Perl, PHP, Python and others
- Supported data formats: XML, HTML, JSON, CSV, Text, binary data
- GUI including several visualizations: Treemap, table view, tree view, scatter plot
Database Layout
BaseX uses a tabular representation of XML tree structures to store XML documents. The database acts as a container for a single document or a collection of documents. The XPath Accelerator encoding scheme and Staircase Join Operator have been taken as inspiration for speeding up XPath location steps.[6] Additionally, BaseX provides several types of indices to improve the performance of path operations, attribute lookups, text comparisons and full-text searches.[7]
Project History
BaseX was started by Christian Grün at the University of Konstanz in 2005. In 2007, BaseX went open source and has been BSD-licensed since then.[8][9]
Supported systems
The BaseX server is a pure Java 1.7 application and thus runs on any system that provides a suitable Java implementation. It has been tested on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and OpenBSD.[10] In particular, packages are available for Debian[11] and Ubuntu.[12]
Further reading
References
- ^ GitHub: BaseX
- ^ Statistics "Overview on database instances created with BaseX". Retrieved 30 June 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ "W3C: XQuery Test Suite Result Summary". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
- ^ "W3C: XPath and XQuery Full Text 1.0 Test Suite Result Summary". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
- ^ BaseX XQJ API
- ^ Christian Grün; Marc Kramis; Alexander Holupirek; Marc H. Scholl; Marcel Waldvogel (30 June 2006). "Pushing XPath accelerator to its limits" (PDF). Universität Konstanz. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Storing and Querying Large XML Instances" (PDF). Universität Konstanz. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "BaseX 5.0: XML Database with Visual Frontend". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
- ^ "Open Source Kompetenzzentrum of the german Bundesverwaltungsamt" (in German). Archived from the original on 3 November 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Startup - BaseX Documentation".
- ^ "Debian -- Package search results -- basex".
- ^ "basex package: Ubuntu".