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MarkLogic Server

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What is MarkLogic Server?

MarkLogic 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…

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MarkLogic is a versatile software used by various industries to implement solutions for their clients. It is utilized in publishing …
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Pricing

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Low Priority Fixed

$0.01

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

Standard Reserved

$0.07

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

Standard On-Demand

$0.13

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

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is MarkLogic Server?

MarkLogic 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.

Since the February 2023 acquisition, MarkLogic is a Progress brand.

MarkLogic Server Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

MarkLogic 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.

Lucidworks Fusion, Microsoft SharePoint, and Elasticsearch are common alternatives for MarkLogic Server.

The most common users of MarkLogic Server are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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MarkLogic is a versatile software used by various industries to implement solutions for their clients. It is utilized in publishing workflows, enterprise search, big data analytics, and the semantic web. Users have praised its powerful geospatial search feature, which efficiently searches locations based on latitude and longitude. MarkLogic's indexing and tokenization techniques contribute to the quick execution of search queries.

Healthcare organizations rely on MarkLogic as a backend store for patient records, enabling storage, retrieval, and updates. By using a micro-services approach with patient matching and search functionality, MarkLogic helps keep patients up-to-date across multiple hospitals. It also serves as a central store for companies dealing with large amounts of data across multiple clusters, providing efficient storage and search capabilities.

In the academic publishing field, MarkLogic is extensively used for end-to-end data flow, including metadata and full-text content. Its newer features like semantics and JavaScript support are leveraged to develop cutting-edge technology.

MarkLogic's multi-model approach, scalability, and exceptional performance in handling XML data make it a preferred choice. It is also employed for reporting purposes with potential for future OLTP and OLAP services. Companies utilize MarkLogic to create DataHubs that consolidate data from various sources, enabling business teams to leverage the data with BI tools.

The technology department at Zynx Health relies on MarkLogic as the primary database layer for clinical decision support analytics. MarkLogic's XML-based solution proves valuable in handling hierarchically structured and semi-structured healthcare data.

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Our company is a business partner with MarkLogic. We have a large practice dedicated to MarkLogic and have worked with many of MarkLogic's largest clients in nearly all verticals implement solutions built on MarkLogic. We have broad expertise across all areas of MarkLogic and help companies architect and deliver robust solutions powered by this database platform. We solved all sorts of business problems including publishing work flows, advanced enterprise search, intense big data analytics, and the semantic web. MarkLogic is a powerful platform for enterprise data hubs (operational data warehouses) and business tools. The "out of the box" search capabilities of this tool are unrivaled.
  • MarkLogic does everything well, but search is the "bread and butter" operation. All data is indexed on-the-fly and the API's offer a multitude of ways to create incredibly powerful search applications. The search engine isn't bolted on- it's at the core of the database. Search suggestion, relevance, advanced grammar, spell correction (did you mean?), paginated search over massive numbers of records, etc. is all at the fingertips of the developer. The database scales to massive size and yet search returns sub-second results for the most complex search parameters.
  • High availability, disaster recovery, and scaling is handled incredibly well. In the AWS cloud, it is trivial to set up a MarkLogic system to elastically scale with data and request volume- truly elastic, adding nodes and removing them as needed. Databases can replicate to a remote datacenter in real-time to provide instant cut-over for datacenter loss. Clustered servers provide highly available replication of data to instantly recover from node failures.
  • Security is increasingly important as data takes center stage in an enterprise. MarkLogic's role-based security is baked in to every query. This is battle-hardened content control.
  • Flexibility is unrivaled. Any data can be stored reliably and securely in the MarkLogic database. Records can be stored as text, XML, JSON, or binary. All text, XML, and JSON is instantly indexed and the various strategies for indexing are easy to configured and well documented. MarkLogic is also a powerful semantic triple store. Unlike any other NoSQL solution, MarkLogic can handle full documents, graphs, key-value pairs, binaries, etc. in a single database, providing powerful and unique ways of combining enterprise data.
  • 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.
There are few situations where MarkLogic is not well suited, however there's certainly use cases where it is using a missile to swat a fly. Important considerations in the selection process include:

  • Mission critical nature of your data
  • Complexity of your data- do you have polystructured data?
  • Data volume- MarkLogic can handle few records, but it's really meant to house significant volumes of data.
  • Composition of your development team
  • Lifecycle of your system
  • We've had customers who have been able to save their organization hundreds of thousands of dollars by preventing duplication of costly processes. Powerful search capabilities into what different business units had available drives better decisions.
  • Ability to receive content in personalized ways has lead to significant new sales opportunities for some of our customers. This personalization includes on-demand publishing of specific articles on specific topics in addition to recommendation engines and shopping cart analysis.
  • One customer that has an extremely advanced application leveraging nearly every feature MarkLogic has to offer found nearly 3:1 cost savings using MarkLogic when they performed an analysis of projected development and maintenance costs to replicate all their functionality on open source stacks.
There's no other single product that directly compares to all the features that are packed into MarkLogic. Generally speaking, you're looking at a combination of many products to build a stack that competes feature-for-feature. Even if you're leveraging only a limited set of features, the ease of use and robustness of MarkLogic justify the licensing cost differential. TCO makes MarkLogic a better value.
Our firm has consultants for a number of technologies/disciplines. While I am capable and experienced in other areas, my preference is always to work on engagements with MarkLogic. As an architect and developer, I get far more flexibility and performance from one product instead of cobbling together a stack of several products to provide a capability that MarkLogic has rolled into one great product.
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.
Yes
Once a verified bug is reported, they have always been good about helping to implement a workaround that gets us unstuck. The permanent fix typically appears in the next release. Your mileage may vary.
I'd say we almost always get exceptional support from MarkLogic. We had a situation on one project where we simply couldn't squeeze the performance out of a query that we needed for our solution. MarkLogic worked with us to provide professional services resources to help. They were able to leverage others within the company and as a team we were able to arrive at a working solution. This wasn't a "run of the mill" scenario. It was extremely advanced, but MarkLogic is committed to helping their customers succeed.
  • Search is very elegant, flexible, and powerful.
  • Backups and restore are relatively pain-free. Especially compared to other systems.
  • Query Console is a very powerful tool that helps a new developer understand how to code/interact with the server as well as provides access to data.
  • Installation and upgrading is really easy. System admin is generally easy as well.
  • MarkLogic has made good progress, but the system architecture does complicate deployment as compared to other application servers.
  • Replicating massively large datasets across servers can be tough sometimes. Again, some methods are pretty good, but may not always be feasible. By massive, I mean tens of millions of records, many GB of data, so nothing really does that easily.
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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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