BaseX

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BaseX
Original author(s) Christian Grün
Initial release2007
Stable release
11.0 / June 6, 2024;0 days ago (2024-06-06)
Repository
Written in Java
Platform Java SE
Available inEnglish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Mongolian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish [1]
Type XML database
License BSD-3-Clause [2]
Website basex.org

BaseX is a native and light-weight XML database management system and XQuery processor, developed as a community project on GitHub. [3] It is specialized in storing, querying, and visualizing large XML documents and collections. [4] BaseX is platform-independent and distributed under the BSD-3-Clause license. [2]

Contents

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 [5] [6] 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

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. [8] Additionally, BaseX provides several types of indices to improve the performance of path operations, attribute lookups, text comparisons and full-text searches. [9]

History

BaseX was started by Christian Grün at the University of Konstanz in 2005. In 2007, BaseX went open source and has been under the BSD-3-Clause license since then. [10] [11]

Supported systems

The BaseX server is a pure Java 1.8 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. [12] In particular, packages are available for Debian [13] and Ubuntu. [14]

Further reading

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References

  1. ↑ "Translations - BaseX Documentation".
  2. 1 2 "BaseX Open Source" . Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  3. ↑ GitHub: BaseX
  4. ↑ "Overview on database instances created with BaseX" . Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  5. ↑ "W3C: XQuery Test Suite Result Summary". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  6. ↑ "W3C: XPath and XQuery Full Text 1.0 Test Suite Result Summary". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  7. ↑ BaseX XQJ API
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "Storing and Querying Large XML Instances" (PDF). Universität Konstanz. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  10. ↑ "BaseX 5.0: XML Database with Visual Frontend". Linux Magazine . Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  11. ↑ "Open Source Kompetenzzentrum of the german Bundesverwaltungsamt" (in German). Archived from the original on 3 November 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  12. ↑ "Startup - BaseX Documentation".
  13. ↑ "Debian -- Package search results -- basex".
  14. ↑ "basex package: Ubuntu". 25 April 2023.
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