MarkLogic

MarkLogic Corporation
Private
Industry Software
Founded San Mateo, California (2001)
Headquarters San Carlos, California
Key people

Gary Bloom, CEO

Christopher Lindblad, co-founder
Products MarkLogic Essential Enterprise; MarkLogic Global Enterprise
Number of employees
360
Website www.marklogic.com

MarkLogic Corporation (formerly Cerisent), or MarkLogic is an American software business that develops and provides an enterprise NoSQL database, MarkLogic.[1][2] MarkLogic is a document-oriented database platform that has a schema-agnostic data model for storing and managing XML, JSON, RDF, and Geospatial data. It uses a distributed, scale-out architecture, provides ACID transactions, and maintains government-certified security.

The company has its headquarters in Silicon Valley with field offices in Chicago, Frankfurt, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm, Tokyo, Utrecht and Washington D.C.

History

The company was founded in 2001 by Christopher Lindblad,[3] who was the Chief Architect of the Ultraseek search engine at Infoseek, and Paul Pedersen, a professor of computer science at Cornell University and UCLA, to address shortcomings with existing search and data products. At the time, it used the then-dominant XML document markup standard and XQuery as the query standard for accessing collections of documents up to hundreds of terabytes in size. Newer versions handle JSON data and use XSLT, and MarkLogic 8 processes data using JavaScript.[4]

In May 2012, Gary Bloom joined MarkLogic as Chief Executive Officer.[5] Prior to joining Veritas Software as CEO in 2000, Bloom held several senior positions at Oracle and was widely considered the successor to Larry Ellison.[6]

MarkLogic is privately held with investments from Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital and Northgate Capital.[7]

In 2012, MarkLogic was the vendor with the largest revenue for Hadoop/NoSQL Software or Services, with 13 percent of total marketshare.[8]

For the 2012 London Olympics, the BBC used MarkLogic to power its Olympic Data Services, an application that had to be built in 12 months. "Given the timescales, this project would not have been achievable using a SQL database, which would have pushed the design towards more complete modeling of the data."[9] BBC broke all traffic records during the 2-week games, 2.8 Petabytes on peak day, including more than 100m video requests.[10]

Since 1 October 2013, MarkLogic has been used to help power the U.S. government healthcare.gov site.[11]

Product releases:

Licensing and Support

MarkLogic Server is available under various licensing and delivery models. These were announced in October 2013:[12]

Technology

MarkLogic is a NoSQL document database that has evolved from its XML database roots to embrace the "enterprise NoSQL" label. In addition to the distributed, scale-out architecture expected from a NoSQL database, it has role-based security features, JSON storage, direct use of Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), multiple indexing strategies and ACID consistency.[14] It is the most popular native XML DBMS as of April 2013.[15] The product combines a database, search engine and application services together in one platform.

MarkLogic features include replication, rollback, automated failover, point-in-time recovery, backup/restore, backup to Amazon S3, JSON, can run directly on Hadoop Distributed File System, parallelized ingest, role-based security, full text search, location services, geospatial alerting, RDF triple store and SPARQL query support.[16]

MarkMail is a free public mailing list archive service that emphasizes interactivity and search analytics.[17] 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 four million email messages. As of 24 November 2013, the service claims inclusion of 66,058,071 messages across 8,761 lists, of which 2,975 were active lists.[18] 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.

Sample Applications

MarkLogic's Enterprise NoSQL database platform is widely used in publishing, government, finance and other sectors, with some hundreds of large-scale systems in production. Below are some of the organizations using MarkLogic.

US Affordable Care Act

The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare, responsible for implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) uses MarkLogic to power its database, including the Federal Data Services Hub and parts of Federally Facilitated Marketplace.

According to the New York Times, the main contractor for ACA originally objected to using MarkLogic.[45]

Further reading

See also

References

  1. "Top 5: MarkLogic topped last week's Silicon Valley fundings". Silicon Valley Business Journal. 4 October 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  2. "MarkLogic nets $25M to keep up enterprise NoSQL pitch". Gigaom. 4 October 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  3. "Christopher Lindblad | Crunchbase Profile". CrunchBase. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  4. "MarkLogic 4.0 Introduces Stable of New Features for the XML Server". Information Today. 9 October 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  5. Hoge, Patrick (17 May 2012). "MarkLogic appoints Gary Bloom CEO". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  6. Foremski, Tom (17 May 2012). "Former senior Oracle exec Gary Bloom named CEO of Mark Logic". ZDnet. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  7. Joyce, Wells (11 April 2013). "MarkLogic Secures New $25 Million Investment and Targets Four Primary Product Areas". DBTA.com. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  8. Kelly, Jeff (16 September 2013). "Hadoop-NoSQL Software and Services Market Forecast 2012–2017". Wikibon. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  9. Rogers, David. "Building the Olympic Data Services". BBC. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  10. ORiordan, Cait (13 August 2012). "The story of the digital Olympics: streams, browsers, most watched, four screens". BBC. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  11. "Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash". 26 November 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  12. 12.0 12.1 MacFadden, Gary (30 October 2013). "MarkLogic 7 Leads the NoSQL Class, Adding Semantics and Other Enhancements". Wikibon. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  13. Miller, Ron (18 February 2013). "Spotlight: MarkLogic makes developer tools available for free". FierceContentManagement. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  14. Nick Heudecker; Merv Adrian (23 August 2013). Who's Who in NoSQL DBMSs (G00252015 ed.). Gartner.
  15. "DB-Engines Ranking of Native XML DBMS". DB-Engines.
  16. Feinberg, Donald; Merv Adrian; Nick Heudecker (21 October 2013). "Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems". Gartner.
  17. O'Brien, Tim (24 November 2008). "Interview with Jason Hunter of MarkMail.org". O'Reilly Community. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  18. "MarkMail list of lists".
  19. "APA PsycNET® Is Now Powered by MarkLogic". March 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 Bridgwater, Adrian (24 November 2014). "Data Is Good, 'Bidirectionalized Bitemporal' Data Is Better". Forbes. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  21. Shah, Sooraj (13 June 2012). "BBC and Press Association select MarkLogic to handle Olympics data". Computing. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  22. "Avalon Named MarkLogic’s Partner of the Year" (Press release). San Francisco, Calif: BIIA. 28 April 2011. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
  23. Lipton, Eric et al. (22 November 2013). "Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash". Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  24. "BC-CA-MARKLOGIC" (Press release). San Carlos, Calif.: Yahoo! News. 15 February 2011. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
  25. Quint, Barbara (13 December 2012). "Dow Jones Moving to MarkLogic Platform; Factiva First". Information Today, Inc. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  26. "Fairfax County land—use solution puts big data on the map". GCN. 6 November 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  27. Marks, Oliver (15 March 2011). "MarkLogic - Unstructured Data Supertanker". ZDNet. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  28. "Informatics Corporation of America Partners with Mark Logic" (Press release). Nashville, Tenn.: Reuters. 20 August 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  29. "The example of Lagardère Active: An automated transformation chain". 4Dconcept. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  30. Darrow, Barb (8 December 2011). "LexisNexis puts MarkLogic to work in big data makeover". Gigaom. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  31. "Typefi and LexParadigm announce technology partnership" (Press release). Exton, Penn.: Typefi. 12 March 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  32. "Government Agencies Discuss the Importance of Managing Unstructured Data at MarkLogic Government Summit" (Press release). Tysons Corner, Virginia: Reuters. 11 November 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  33. "Unstructured Data contained by MarkLogic". Librarian with Design. 19 November 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  34. "MarkLogic and MBS Partner to Deliver New Digital Content for Publishing and eTraining" (Press release). Columbia, MO: CNBC. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
  35. "World Class Organizations to Share Stories of Innovation and Success at MarkLogic 2011 User Conference" (Press release). San Francisco, Calif.: Reuters. 22 March 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  36. "Automotive software gets boost from MarkLogic". KMWorld Magazine. 20 April 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  37. 37.0 37.1 37.2 Marshall, Matt (17 July 2007). "Mark Logic secures $15M for XML content server". Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  38. Heath, Nick (30 January 2013). "How PA cleared the big data hurdle at the London Olympics". European Technology. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  39. "RSuite CMS 4 Now Powered By MarkLogic 7". eContent. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  40. Leonard, John (8 November 2013). "A positive reaction: big data technology at the Royal Society of Chemistry". Computing. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  41. 41.0 41.1 Kamauff, Ryan (12 June 2013). "CTOvision Podcast, an interview with Alicia Saia of MarkLogic". Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  42. "US patent office embraces big data". CivSource:date=25 April 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  43. Tribbey, Chris (1 August 2014). "Experts: Metadata More Important Than Ever". Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  44. "Wiley Uses Mark Logic for Custom Publishing Application". 21 April 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  45. Lipton, Eric et al. (23 November 2013). "Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash". Retrieved 28 January 2015.

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