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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.
BaseX is platform-independent and runs on any system that provides an implementation of the [http://www.java.com Java Runtime Environment (JRE)]:
