MarkLogic

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MarkLogic is an American software business that develops and provides an enterprise NoSQL database, which is also named MarkLogic. They have offices in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

In February 2023, MarkLogic was acquired by Progress Software for $355 million.[1]

Overview

Founded in 2001 by Christopher Lindblad and Paul Pedersen, MarkLogic Corporation is a privately held company with over 500 employees[2] that was acquired by Vector Capital in October 2020.[3]

History

MarkLogic was originally named Cerisent when it was founded in 2001[4] by Christopher Lindblad, who was the Chief Architect of the Ultraseek search engine at Infoseek, as well as Paul Pedersen, a professor of computer science at Cornell University and UCLA, and Frank R. Caufield, Founder of Darwin Ventures,[5] to address shortcomings with existing search and data products. The product first focused on using XML document markup standard and XQuery as the query standard for accessing collections of documents up to hundreds of terabytes in size.

In 2009, IDC mentioned MarkLogic as one of the top Innovative Information Access Companies with under $100 million in revenue.[6]

In May 2012, Gary Bloom was appointed as Chief Executive Officer.[7] He held senior positions at Symantec Corporation, Veritas Software, and Oracle.[8]

Post-acquisition, the company named Jeffrey Casale as its new CEO.

Funding

MarkLogic received its first financing of Template:US$ in 2002 led by Sequoia Capital, followed by a Template:US$ investment in June 2004, this time led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners.[9] The company received additional funding of $15 million in 2007 from its existing investors Sequoia and Lehman.[9] The same investors put another $12.5 million into the company in 2009.[10]

On 12 April 2013, MarkLogic received an additional Template:US$ in funding, led by Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital.[11][12] On May 12, 2015, MarkLogic received an additional Template:US$ in funding, led by Wellington Management Company, with contributions from Arrowpoint Partners and existing backers, Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Northgate Capital. This brought the company's total funding to Template:US$ and gave MarkLogic a pre-money valuation of Template:US$.[13]

NTT Data announced a strategic investment in MarkLogic on 31 May 2017.[14]

Products

Script error: No such module "labelled list hatnote". The MarkLogic product is considered a multi-model NoSQL database for its ability to store, manage, search JSON and XML documents and semantic data (RDF triples).

Releases

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  • 2005 Template:En dash MarkLogic Server 3Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
  • 2008 Template:En dash MarkLogic Server 4: Geospatial search, entity extraction, advanced XQuery, performance, scalability enhancements
  • 2011 Template:En dash MarkLogic Server 5: Flexible replication / DDIL, real-time indexing, advanced search, improved analytics, concurrency enhancements
  • 2012 Template:En dash MarkLogic Server 6: REST and Java APIs, App Builder, enhanced UI, improved search
  • 2013 Template:En dash MarkLogic Server 7: Semantics, bitemporal data, tiered storage, improved search, better management
  • 2015 Template:En dash MarkLogic Server 8: Ability to store JSON data and process data using JavaScript.[15]
  • 2017 Template:En dash MarkLogic Server 9: Data integration across Relational and Non-Relational data.
  • 2019 Template:En dash MarkLogic Server 10: Enhanced Data Hub, improved SQL, security, analytics performance, cloud support
  • 2022 Template:En dash MarkLogic Server 11: MarkLogic Ops Director (Monitoring and Administration Improvements), expanded PKI

Licensing and support

MarkLogic is proprietary software, available under a freeware developer software license or a commercial "Essential Enterprise" license.[16] Licenses are available from MarkLogic or directly from cloud marketplaces such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Technology

MarkLogic is a multi-model NoSQL database that has evolved from its XML database roots to also natively store JSON documents and RDF triples for its semantic data model. It uses a distributed architecture that can handle hundreds of billions of documents and hundreds of terabytes of data.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". MarkLogic maintains ACID consistency for transactions and has a Common Criteria certification security model, high availability, and disaster recovery. It is designed to run on-premises within public or private cloud computing environments like Amazon Web Services.[17]

MarkLogic's Enterprise NoSQL database platform is used in various sectors, including publishing, government and finance. It is employed in a number of systems currently in production.[17]

See also

References

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Further reading

  • Fowler, Adam. "NoSQL for Dummies". Template:ISBN, 9781118905623.
  • Taylor, Allen. "Semantics for Dummies". Template:ISBN.
  • Hunter, Jason. "Inside MarkLogic Server"
  • McCreary, Dan, and Ann Kelly. Making Sense of NoSQL. Manning Publications Co. August 2012. Template:ISBN.
  • Zhang, Andy. Beginning MarkLogic with XQuery and MarkLogic Server. Champion Writers, Inc. 24 June 2009. Template:ISBN.
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