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# BaseX Reviews
**Vendor:** BaseX  
**Category:** [XML Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/xml-databases)  
**Average Rating:** 3.7/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 3
## About BaseX
BaseX is a light-weight, high-performance and scalable XML Database engine and XPath/XQuery 3.1 Processor, which includes full support for the W3C Update and Full Text extensions. An interactive and user-friendly GUI frontend gives you great insight into your XML documents.




## BaseX Reviews
  ### 1. Professional Quality and Open Source

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Martin M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2020

**What do you like best about BaseX?**

Standards support, documentation, ease of use, power and performance

**What do you dislike about BaseX?**

Some of the configuration options are slightly obscure, but that is being very picky

**Recommendations to others considering BaseX:**

I have been working with XML for about 20 years.   This is honestly the best tool I have ever encountered for working with data in XML format.

**What problems is BaseX solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Parsing data definitions
Transforming data
Testing and validating outputs



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## BaseX Features
**Database Features**
- Storage
- Availability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Security
- Data Manipulation
- Query Language

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