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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Progress MarkLogic

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMarkLogic Server is a multi-model database that has both NoSQL and trusted enterprise data management capabilities. The vendor states it is the most secure multi-model database, and it’s deployable in any environment. They state it is an ideal database to power a data hub.

    $0.01

    per MCU/per hour + 0.10 per GB/per month

    Qubole

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AQubole is a NoSQL database offering from the California-based company of the same name.N/A
    Pricing
    Progress MarkLogicQubole
    Editions & Modules
    Low Priority Fixed
    $0.01
    per MCU/per hour + 0.10 per GB/per month
    Standard Reserved
    $0.07
    per MCU/per hour + 0.10 per GB/per month
    Standard On-Demand
    $0.13
    per MCU/per hour + 0.10 per GB/per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Progress MarkLogicQubole
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Progress MarkLogicQubole
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Progress MarkLogic and Qubole
    Feature
    Progress MarkLogic
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Qubole
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Performance8.52 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Availability8.02 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Concurrency7.52 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Security9.02 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Scalability8.52 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Data model flexibility7.02 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility6.52 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Progress MarkLogicQubole
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    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    Score7.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Progress MarkLogicQubole
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Progress MarkLogicQubole
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Progress Software
    If you are storing META data then MarkLogic is super useful as it retrieves everything so fast, while storing the whole data shows performance issues some times. If you have legacy systems then migrating from it would really require sweat and blood, on the other hand if you are in systems like Node.js you can simply integrate two systems easily. If you don't know how in the end your your data schema will look like then it's better to make a prototype using MarkLogic.
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    Qubole
    I find Qubole is well suited for getting started analyzing data in the cloud without being locked in to a specific cloud vendor's tooling other than the underlying filesystem. Since the data itself is not isolated to any Qubole cluster, it can be easily be collected back into a cloud-vendor's specific tools for further analysis, therefore I find it complementary to any offerings such as Amazon EMR or Google DataProc.
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    Pros
    Progress Software
    • Search was really advanced. Hard to set up and had limitations about semantical meanings between xml nodes, but provided very good search abilities.
    • The organization of documents across collections and metadata was particularly useful.
    • The REST abilities were very advanced and worked with XQuery well.
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    Qubole
    • From a UI perspective, I find Qubole's closest comparison to Cloudera's HUE; it provides a one-stop shop for all data browsing and querying needs.
    • Auto scaling groups and auto-terminating clusters provides cost savings for idle resources.
    • Qubole fits itself well into the open-source data science market by providing a choice of tools that aren't tied to a specific cloud vendor.
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    Cons
    Progress Software
    • MarkLogic still has a long way to go in fostering the developer community. Many developers are gravitating to the simple integrations and do not delve into the deeper capabilities. They have made tremendous strides in recent months and I am sure this will improve over time.
    • Many of the best features are left on the floor by enterprises who end up implementing MarkLogic as a data store. MarkLogic needs to help customers find ways to better leverage their investment and be more creative in how they use the product.
    • Licensing costs become a major hurdle for adoption. The pricing model has improved for basic implementations, but the costs seem very prohibitive for some verticals and for some of the most advanced features.
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    Qubole
    • Providing an open selection of all cloud provider instance types with no explanation as to their ideal use cases causes too much confusion for new users setting up a new cluster. For example, not everyone knows that Amazon's R or X-series models are memory optimized, while the C and M-series are for general computation.
    • I would like to see more ETL tools provided other than DistCP that allow one to move data between Hadoop Filesystems.
    • From the cluster administration side, onboarding of new users for large companies seems troublesome, especially when trying to create individual cluster per team within the company. Having the ability to debug and share code/queries between users of other teams / clusters should also be possible.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Progress Software
    MarkLogic is expensive but solid. While we use open source for almost everything else, the backend database is too critically important. At this point, re-tooling for a different back end would take too much time to be a viable option.
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    Qubole
    Personally, I have no issues using Amazon EMR with Hue and Zeppelin, for example, for data science and exploratory analysis. The benefits to using Qubole are that it offers additional tooling that may not be available in other cloud providers without manual installation and also offers auto-terminating instances and scaling groups.
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    Usability
    Progress Software
    Very little about it can be done better or with greater ease. Even things that seem difficult aren't really that bad. There's multiple ways to accomplish any admin task. MarkLogic requires a fraction of administrative effort that you see with enterprise RDBMS like Oracle. MarkLogic is continually improving the tools to simplify cluster configuration and maintenance.
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    Qubole
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    Support Rating
    Progress Software
    There's always room for improvement. Some problems get solved faster than others, of course. MarkLogic's direct support is very responsive and professional. If they can't help immediately, they always have good feedback and are eager to receive information and details to work to replicate the problem. They are quick to escalate major support issues and production show-stopping problems. In addition to MarkLogic's direct support, there are several employees who are very active among the community and many questions and common issues get quick attention from helpful responses to email and StackOverflow questions.
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    Qubole
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    Alternatives Considered
    Progress Software
    We had Fast in place when Microsoft had bought it up and was going to change / deprecate it. One of the biggest advantages of MarkLogic for search actually had to do with the rest of the content pipeline - it allowed us to have it all in one technology. On the NoSQL side, we looked at MongoDB a couple years back. At that time, MarkLogic came in stronger on indexing, transaction reliability, and DR options. For us, that was worth using a commercial product.
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    Qubole
    Qubole was decided on by upper management rather than these competitive offerings. I find that Databricks has a better Spark offering compared to Qubole's Zeppelin notebooks.
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    Return on Investment
    Progress Software
    • MarkLogic reduced the amount of time that the DevOps team needed to dedicate to database updates, as the engineering team was mostly able to easily design and maintain database upgrades without requiring specialists such as database architects on the DevOps side. This capability flowed from the product's speed and the versatility of its XQuery language and libraries.
    • MarkLogic required significant education and buy-in time for the engineering team.
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    Qubole
    • We like to say that Qubole has allowed for "data democratization", meaning that each team is responsible for their own set of tooling and use cases rather than being limited by versions established by products such as Hortonworks HDP or Cloudera CDH
    • One negative impact is that users have over-provisioned clusters without realizing it, and end up paying for it. When setting up a new cluster, there are too many choices to pick from, and data scientists may not understand the instance types or hardware specs for the datasets they need to operate on.
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