MarkLogic

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.

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. ==Overview== Founded in 2001¹ by Christopher Lindblad and Paul Pedersen, MarkLogic Corporation is a privately held company with over 500 employees¹ that was acquired by Vector Capital in October 2020. ==History== MarkLogic was originally named Cerisent when it was founded in 2001 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, 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. In May 2012, Gary Bloom was appointed as Chief Executive Officer. He held senior positions at Symantec Corporation, Veritas Software, and Oracle. Post-acquisition, the company named Jeffrey Casale as its new CEO. ==Products== 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). ===Licensing and support=== MarkLogic is proprietary software, available under a freeware developer software license or a commercial "Essential Enterprise" license. 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. 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. 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. ==See also== Document database Graph database Multi-model database NoSQL Triple store MongoDB ==References==

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