| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software & Programming |
| Founded | San Mateo, California (2003) |
| Headquarters | San Carlos, California |
| Key people |
Ken Bado, CEO Christopher Lindblad, founder |
| Products | MarkLogic Server; MarkLogic Application Services |
| Revenue | Over $50Million |
| Employees | 250 |
| Website | www.marklogic.com |
MarkLogic Corporation is an enterprise software company that helps organizations manage unstructured information and Big Data. The company’s flagship product is MarkLogic Server, which is a database for unstructured information. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London, Boston, Austin, and Frankfurt, MarkLogic serves industries including media, government, financial services, and others.
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The company was founded in 2003 by Christopher Lindblad,[1] chief architect of the Ultraseek search engine at Infoseek, and Paul Pedersen, a professor of computer science at Cornell and UCLA, to address the emergence of XML as a document markup standard and XQuery as the standard means for accessing collections of XML documents up to tens or hundreds of terabytes in size.[2]
MarkLogic is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. David Kellogg resigned as CEO in January 2011 after working at MarkLogic for 6 years;[3] as of April 2011, the company is operating with Ken Bado as president and CEO.[4]
The company’s flagship product, MarkLogic Server, enables customers to build a variety of information applications including custom publishing, search-based applications, content analytics, unified information access, metadata catalogs, and threat intelligence systems. MarkLogic Server is based on patented innovations and provides features including location awareness, real-time search, and a shared-nothing cluster architecture that supports high performance against petabyte-scale databases.[5]
MarkLogic Application Services adds three legs to the MarkLogic family: MarkLogic Application Builder, Search API and Library Services API. Each of these core services is designed to enable customers to prototype new applications in addition to building production-ready applications:
MarkLogic Application Builder: A graphical application development tool that speeds the creation of search-based applications without writing a single line of code.
MarkLogic Search API: An API equipped with a library designed to simplify the development of rich search applications.
MarkLogic Library Services API: This new API adds library services such as check-in, check-out, and versioning. With this functionality organizations will have greater control over documents in multi-author and other regulated environments.[6]
MarkMail, which makes heavy use of MarkLogic Server, is a free public mailing list archive service that emphasizes interactivity and search analytics. Every search result shows a histogram traffic chart of the messages matching the query, and also the top matching lists and senders.
MarkMail started in November 2007 with approximately 4 million email messages. As of 1 June 2009, the service claims inclusion of 38,813,009 messages across 7,086 lists, of which 3,607 are active lists.[7] The archive includes complete list histories for Apache, FreeBSD, GNOME, Jabber, Java.net, KDE, Mozilla, MySQL, OpenOffice.org, Perl.org, PostgreSQL, Python, Red Hat, Ruby, W3C, and Xen, among others.
MarkLogic Server is used by companies in the media and information, financial services, government and other industries including Elsevier, LexisNexis, Wolters Kluwer, Oxford University Press, McGraw-Hill, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Bowker,[8] as well as Zinio[9] and CQ Roll Call.[10] In addition, other enterprises such as JetBlue Airways, United, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and JPMorgan Chase use MarkLogic Server to build information applications. The product is also used by several US government customers, including the United States Army, Department of State, Defense Information Systems Agency, as well as a number of large government agencies and military/veteran resources such as Warrior Gateway[11] which was named to the Fed100 in 2011 for its application built on MarkLogic that helps ease the return of veterans to civilian life.
MarkLogic was ranked the 4th fastest growing company in Silicon Valley for time period between 2003 and 2007 in Deloitte's "Fast 50".[12] MarkLogic won the 2009, 2010, and 2011 CODIE awards for best Database Management Solution.[13] In addition, MarkLogic has been named to KMWorld's list of “100 Companies That Matter“ in knowledge management for seven consecutive years.[14]