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eXistdb VS BaseX

Compare eXistdb VS BaseX and see what are their differences

eXistdb logo eXistdb

High-performance native XML database engine and all-in-one solution for application building.

BaseX logo BaseX

BaseX is a very light-weight, high-performance and scalable XML Database engine and XPath/XQuery...
  • eXistdb Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-07-11
  • BaseX Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-21

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to eXistdb and BaseX)
Text Editors
46 46%
54% 54
Databases
51 51%
49% 49
Task Management
46 46%
54% 54
NoSQL Databases
48 48%
52% 52

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, BaseX seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 7 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

eXistdb mentions (0)

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BaseX mentions (7)

  • Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally
    Granted, it's for XML, but BaseX is a database engine that deals with hierarchical data quite well. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Deserialize large (XML) file chunk by chunk instead of entire file
    I like BaseX for XML processing. It does require a "server" install - it's fairly lightweight tho. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Merging xml files by attribute priority
    When doing XML work, always use XPath based tools. Have a look at https://basex.org. Then lookup some XPath docs. You will need to select the nodes by ID and then compare their content. Something like:. Source: about 2 years ago
  • How to measure the time it takes to parse a XML document/to do a XPath query?
    BaseX, an XQuery processor, can provide some of the information. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Is there anything like an XML visualizer?
    While your screenshot does not look usable at all, BaseX has several, very nice ways to visualize XML data. Source: about 3 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing eXistdb and BaseX, you can also consider the following products

MarkLogic - Schema-agnostic Enterprise NoSQL database technology, coupled w/ powerful search & flexible application services

Apache Anakia - XML Databases

Qizx - XML Databases

Apache Xerces - Advanced XML parser, including support for XML Schema, DOM Level 2, and SAX.

Apache Xalan - XML Databases

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