Difference between XQuery and XPath

XQuery is a language that is used to interact with XML datasets so its main purpose is to retrieve data that is saved in the format of XML. It was developed by World Wide Web Consortium. It can read and write the data in the database which is used in software and services integration for making analysis reports. It follows the concept of declarative programming for querying databases. It was firstly used in 2007.

XPath is basically a track declaration used in deriving results which are in the form of string or boolean values, these values are actually the location of data files that are used in computation hence it is considered as a path driven language used for interacting with XML data.

Below is a table of differences between XQuery and XPath:

	XQuery	XPath
1.	XQuery is an active programming language which is used to interact with XML data groups.	XPath is an XML method language which is applied for node selection in XML dataset using queries.
2.	XQuery is case sensitive so when interacting with XML dataset it follows the case-sensitivity policy.	XPath is not case sensitive.
3.	A tree model, as well as a tabular model, are used in XQuery for data retrieval.	Tree model representation is being used in XPath.
4.	It was not a W3C standard until 2014.	It follows the standards given by W3C.
5.	XQuery is efficient as it aids Xpath.	It is just the element of the query language
6.	Operators used in XQuery are union, except, intersect etc.	Operators used in XPath are union and OR.
7.	Sort and Projection are allowed in Xquery.	Sort and Projection functionalities are not allowed.
8.	Both inbuilt and user-defined functions are allowed.	Only inbuilt library functions are allowed.
9.	It consumes more storage due to larger payloads.	It does not consume more storage.