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Revision as of 11:08, 12 August 2015
This page is part of the Getting Started Section. BaseX offers a standalone console mode from which all database commands can be executed. The article on the Database Server provides numerous examples for running commands in the console mode (note that the GUI does not interact with the client/server architecture).
Contents
Startup
First of all, please launch a standalone version of BaseX: double click on the BaseX icon, or run the basex
script. Follow this link for more information (or check out the additional command-line options).
Create a database
- To create a database you need an XML document, e.g. factbook.xml.
- Save this document to your working directory.
- Type in the following command:
> CREATE DB factbook factbook.xml
- factbook is the name of the database
- factbook.xml is the initial input of the database
If everything works you see the following lines:
Database 'factbook' created in 950.83 ms.
- Where is the database stored?
By default, databases are stored in the BaseXData
directory, which is located in your home folder.
Depending on your Configuration, the location of your home folder varies. For example, on a Mac it's /Users/John
, if your name is John. If you have used the Windows Installer, the directory will be named data
, and reside in the application directory.
Execute a query
The XQUERY command lets you run a query.
- For example, this query returns all country nodes in the currently opened database.
> XQUERY //country
- You can also run queries in files:
> RUN /Users/John/query.xq
Create a new database
Now we will create another database from the xmark.xml document.
- Create the new database, named 'xmark'.
> CREATE DB xmark xmark.xml
- Set the new database xmark as the context:
> OPEN xmark
- Now you can easily execute queries on your new database:
> XQUERY //people/person/name
Switch the database
- You can explicitly query the factbook database with the
doc(...)
funtion, no matter what the current context is.
> XQUERY doc("factbook")//country
- Otherwise, to set factbook as the current context, execute the following:
> OPEN factbook
- The following command lists all databases than can be opened by the currently logged in users:
> LIST
Close or delete a database
- To close the current context database, please type:
> CLOSE
- Use the DROP DB command to delete the xmark database:
> DROP DB xmark
Create a collection
What is a collection? With BaseX you can group documents into one logical collection. A collection is a database that contains two or more documents. Collections accept any type of XML documents, regardless of their structure.
Let's add the xmark.xml document to the factbook database to create a collection. The name of the original factbook database remains.
- First make sure factbook is opened:
> OPEN factbook
- Now add the xmark.xml document:
> ADD xmark.xml
Delete a document
- Deleting a document from a collection is easy:
> DELETE xmark.xml
Make sure that the collection, which contains the xmark.xml document, is opened.
Delete a collection
Deleting a collection is the same as deleting a database.
- To delete the collection factbook, type:
> DROP DB factbook
Get server information
Several commands help to explore the state of a server. For a complete list, please visit the Commands Section.
- To see all databases on the server, type:
> LIST
- To see the general information of the opened database, type:
> INFO
- To list all sessions that are managed by the server instance, type:
Backup and restore
- To backup your database, type:
> CREATE BACKUP factbook
- To restore your database, type:
> RESTORE factbook
Where is the backup-file stored?
The backup-file is stored in the database directory.
The file is named factbook-timestamp.zip
(db_name-timestamp.zip
).
To restore the database the file with the newest timestamp is taken.