> Of course, BaseX might fall over onto its back and wiggle its legs in
> the air at a 5GByte XML document, ibm not sure. Ibve had more than 5G
> in one BaseX database i think, but not all in one file, it was the
> collected works of Dorothy Parker
>

For those interested, our documentation contains a (now rather old) summary
of documents that have been imported into a single database:

https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Statistics

The largest single document was 421 GB (for mere testing purposes).

Hope this helps,
Christian