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BaseX has been an open source product since 2005, licensed under the 3-clause BSD License. It will remain open source, irrespective of any commercial activities. If you appreciate BaseX and wish to support its ongoing development, please consider making a donation.
Getting Started
For information on how to install and integrate BaseX, please refer to the Developer Section of our documentation. Our source code and issue tracker are located on GitHub. Pre-built release packages can be found in the Download Section.
For a version history, please review the Changelogs or the (previous) releases.
Help
For any questions regarding BaseX, including feature requests and bug reports, please use our mailing lists:
- basex-talk: A general discussion list with user questions and answers. It can also be searched in the mail archive.
- basex-announce: Low-traffic list with information on new releases.
Additional support for BaseX is available on Stack Overflow. Look for questions tagged with [basex].
Contributors
Christian Grün
Head of Development
Leonard Wörteler
XQuery 3.1, HOF, Maps & Arrays
Lukas Kircher
XQuery Update, Scatterplot
Gunther Rademacher
XQuery Core
Dirk Kirsten
Replication
Dimitar Popov
Storage, Core
Rositsa Shadura
XQuery Modules
Jens Erat
Transaction Management
Andreas Weiler
Client/Server Architecture
Tim Balzer
Storage
Masoumeh Seydi
XQuery GIS Data
Sebastian Gath
XQuery Full-Text
Wolfgang Miller
Visualizations
Jörg Hauser
Visualizations
Lukas Lewandowski
Map/Reduce
Michael Seiferle
XQuery 3.0
Johannes Finckh
WebSockets
Bastian Lemke
GUI
Sabine Teubner
Documentation
Alexander Holupirek
BaseX Packaging