XML database systems

XML databases are able to validate XML documents against an XML schema or a DTD. In addition, they support at least XPATH, XQuery and XSLT.

Database systems

Examples of XML database systems are eXist and MonetDB.

Home	eXist	MonetDB	BaseX
GitHub	eXist-db/exist	MonetDB/MonetDB	BaseXdb/basex
Docs	exist-db.org/exist/apps/doc/documentation	www.monetdb.org/Documentation	docs.basex.org
Application areas	CMS	CMS, Date-Warehouse, Data mining	CMS
Development language	Java	C	Java
Licenses	LGPL-2.1 License	Mozilla Public License 2.0	BSD-3-Clause License
Data model	XML	XML, column-oriented data structure	XML, geographic data
Query langauge	XQuery, XPATH	SQL	XQuery, XPATH
Transactions, concurrency		Optimistic Concurrency	ACID, XQuery Locks
Replication, skaling	Master-slave replication	Transaction replication
Remarks		With R, analyses can be carried out directly at the database level.