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BaseX is very light-weight. It can be run and used in lots of different ways:
# BaseX comes with a [[GUI|graphical user interfaceGraphical User Interface]] that offers you marvellous tools for managing, querying and visualizing your (XML) data and write complex applications in XQuery.# You can start BaseX as [[#Command-Line Client|standalone command-line client]] if you prefer to work on command-line line and want to do batch processing.
# The [[Database Server]] is the right choice if you have multiple users or clients, if you don’t require HTTP services, and if you tend to communicate with BaseX on a technical level.
# The [[Web Application|HTTP Server]] provides [[REST]] and [[WebDAV]] services. With [[RESTXQ]], complex web applications can be built, and the embedded [[DBA]] application allows you to work with BaseX in the browser.
=Startup=
First of all, [http://basex.org/download downloadget a fresh copy of BaseX] BaseX from our homepage. ==Requirements==
BaseX is platform-independent and runs on any system that provides an implementation of the [http://www.java.com Java Runtime Environment (JRE)]:
BaseX has been tested on several platforms, including Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7), Mac OS X (10.x),
Linux (SuSE xxx, Debian, Ubuntu) and OpenBSD (4.x).
The following distributions are available:
==Core Package==
The '''Core Package''' is a small very compact JAR file. It contains the BaseX database management system, the XQuery processor, the client/server architecture, and the graphical user interface. It does not require any runs without additional libraries.
==Full Distributions==
