BaseX
| BaseX | |
|---|---|
| Original author | Christian Grün |
| Initial release | 2007 |
| Stable release | 12.1
/ December 23, 2025 |
| Written in | Java |
| Platform | Java SE |
| Available in | English, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Mongolian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish |
| Type | XML database |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Website | basex |
| Repository | |
BaseX is a native and light-weight XML database management system and XQuery processor, developed as a community project on GitHub. It is specialized in storing, querying, and visualizing large XML documents and collections. BaseX is platform-independent and distributed under the BSD-3-Clause 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 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).