--- title: Progress MarkLogic Reviews meta_title: 'Progress MarkLogic Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 66 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Progress MarkLogic works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 66 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Cloud Data Integration url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-integration --- # Progress MarkLogic Reviews **Vendor:** Progress Software **Category:** [Big Data Integration Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data-integration-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 66 ## About Progress MarkLogic Progress MarkLogic is an enterprise-grade multi-model data management platform that unlocks value from complex data. It works with the full breadth of a company's information and makes it easily discoverable and ready to power high-value applications, decision intelligence and trustworthy AI. Organizations leverage integrated capabilities to integrate, harmonize, search and visualize multi-model data to build a connected data ecosystem as the secure and scalable foundation for the AI era. ## Progress MarkLogic Reviews ### 1. Architect and Developer for custom systems using MarkLogic **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony A. | Director of Engineering, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** The system is very robust and with version 8 has removed much of the arcane manual tuning that was needed in older versions. If you are storing and manipulating XML documents, it is very simple for the amount of power it gives you. MarkLogic has excellent documentation and support ecosystem. There are usually other people who have encountered similar issues in the past and their development mailing list is active. Their recent integration with REST, JSON and node.js has substantially simplified building integrated systems on top of MarkLogic. With the recent additions of Active Directory and JSON as first-class-object, it is possible to build a system from the ground up very quickly using only MarkLogic and world-class front-end tools like AngularJS or EmberJS. MarkLogic's support for fully ACID transactions is very rare in the NoSQL market and their reliability is significantly better than anything I've encountered in the open-source NoSQL ecosystem. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** MarkLogic has moved somewhat away from the pure XML world and has not kept up to date with XQuery 3.0, XProc, XQuery Update Facility, etc. They seem to prefer to enhance their proprietary features rather than implement additional standards compliance into their product. I would like to see them improve some of their basic functionality like normalizing their API and refactoring some of the more confusing areas (HTTP FORM handling, native file read/write/delete, etc.). **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** MarkLogic is best utilized by a team that is knowledgeable in XML / XQuery technologies. Despite their inroads in JSON and REST, the learning curve for people without significant XML experience is quite steep. However, if you have invested in XML / XPath / XQuery / XSLT knowledge, then you can be up and running in MarkLogic very quickly. MarkLogic is a great alternative to non ACID compliant distributed databases like DynamoDB / Cassandra / MongoDB. The enterprise version is pricey, although for personal projects, education and non-profit uses they do offer substantial discounts and the community edition still supports the important NoSQL and ACID features. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used MarkLogic as a Document Database in a NoSQL environment to support Fortune 500 customers. We have build custom web-content-managment, component-content-management, document archival and publishing. We have also used MarkLogic as a centralized metadata repository to integrate with governmental databases for purposes of normalizing data governance across a large civilian federal agency. ### 2. Searching and Serving up millions of pages of content in 117 different languages and dialects. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keith B. | Software Engineer 5, Religious Institutions, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** We have millions of pages of content in 117 different languages and we use MarkLogic to ingest, enrich, search and retrieve content and data in XML, HTML and JSON formats. We have been able to cut our website development times in half to one tenth the typical development time of typical three tier architectures because of the content specific languages, tooling and tight integration we are able to achieve using MarkLogic. The number of people required to administer and maintain our MarkLogic databases is a small fraction of what we would employ for relational databases or other no-SQL offerings. MarkLogic was built from the ground up to store, search and enrich large volumes of content in a variety of languages. It is ACID compliant. In fact, it is the only noSQL offering that is ACID compliant. We currently run MarkLogic both on premise and in the cloud. We used both physical hardware and VMs in clusters so that we can bring up instances to scale for expected increases in traffic. We are able to search, combine and serve up content on the fly for 190 different websites ... and growing. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** Ingestion from a relational database can be difficult. Would like ability to ETL content into MarkLogic and out of MarkLogic. Current offering of SQL is limited. This is slated to be fixed in next version. The power and flexibility of the XQuery language to write websites and search content is phenomenal. But it is difficult to find developers willing to commit to learning a language they have heard very little about. Those that do can typically be productive in under 2 weeks but many developers have a mental block in this regard. MarkLogic has added JavaScript as a development language to over come this roadblock but JavaScript lacks the much of the power of the XQuery language. **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** MarkLogic is the database the United States government uses to store the entire Library of Congress. It is also the database that the NSA uses to suck in the internet and search it for terrorist activity. MarkLogic was built from the ground up to store, search and enrich large volumes of content in a variety of languages. MarkLogic is ACID compliant. In fact, it is the only noSQL offering that is ACID compliant. We currently run MarkLogic both on premise and in the cloud. We used both VMs and physical hardware so that we can bring up instances to scale for expected increases in volume. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a world-wide church with over 15 million members. We serve up millions of pages of content daily in 117 different languages, and our list of languages is growing monthly. We were able to build a platform on top of MarkLogic for our flagship websites and then extend their capabilities for multimedia and dynamic content. We can query and combine various content to build pages in milliseconds and we have built webservices that allow users to markup and highlight content and persist their annotations indefinitely. Some of our websites that currently use our MarkLogic platform are: https://www.mormon.org http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/ http://josephsmithpapers.org/ https://www.lds.org https://scriptures.lds.org We currently have MarkLogic clusters and instances both in the cloud and in premise. ### 3. Scalable Platform Document Database, App Server, and Enterprise Search rolled All-In-One **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chhean S. | Independent Software Developer & Consultant, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** MarkLogic is built from the ground up as a No-SQL XML document database, application server, and automatic built-in indexing for enterprise search. It scales horizontally because it was designed with a Map/Reduce architecture. As XML documents are inputted, an on-disk index is built automatically based on every element. And so this leads to performance gains when trying to do simple xpath searches for various documents. It installs, configures, and deploys very quickly and easily. Scaling it horizontally by adding more nodes is not as difficult compared with other structured RDBMS systems. Many types of APIs and languages are available to make it easy to quickly build web services or applications: REST APIs, Xquery/XSLT Functions, Javascript, Java API, Node.js API, and XCC. There is also a Hadoop Connector API. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** Even though the architecture is built on Map/Reduce, it can be difficult to build a batch process application that does things like ETL (extract, transform, and load). MarkLogic does provide a framework called CPF (Content Processing Framework) that is designed as a pipeline framework to transform documents through different stages. However, there is little documentation on how to appropriately scale this framework horizontally. It can be done, but requires some work. **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** Consider leveraging XQuery/XPath as part of your application development to realize many of the full capabilities. Also, XQuery is a Functional Language. And so many developers need to alter their thought process when it comes time to implementing code. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** Search and manage all your information in one place. MarkLogic is a good central repository to manage all of your unstructured content and semi-structured documents. It is the only viable solution for many content publishing applications that want success performance. The development time and costs for these types of applications was reduced significantly (sometimes by as much as 80% savings) compared with past failed projects built with traditional or open source tools. It can act as part of data governance for all metadata within an organization as well. ### 4. Build production products on MarkLogic **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clark R. | Chief Technology Officer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** MarkLogic is blazing fast and extremely secure and stable. It is a fantastic database for searching semi-structured content, XML or JSON documents. It has a wide variety of complex search options that truly allow you to meet any business need. It has all of the robust enterprise database features you would want including ACID transactions, automated backup and recovery and a very good security model. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** The product can be complex to use and does have a somewhat steep learning curve. **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** Yes, there are open source document database that are available. However, none match provide the enterprise grade features nor the scalability and performance that you get with MarkLogic. Try the developer version for free and utilize their development community for support as necessary. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used MarkLogic to allow customers to search through large amounts of data that was represented as complex XML documents. We were able to search through millions of complex documents utilizing complex full text and structured queries and get results in less than a second. ### 5. Makes me smile **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** MarkLogic 6 is an Enterprise NoSQL (“Not Only SQL”) database that has the flexibility and scalability to handle today’s data challenges that SQL-based databases were not designed to handle. It also has enterprise-grade capabilities like search, ACID transactions, failover, replication, and security to run mission-critical applications. MarkLogic combines database functionality, search, and application services in a single system. It provides the functionality enterprises need to deliver value. MarkLogic leverages existing tools, knowledge, and experience while providing a reliable, scalable, and secure platform for mission-critical data. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** There isn't anything about it that I don't like. **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** MarkLogic 6 is an Enterprise NoSQL (“Not Only SQL”) database that has the flexibility and scalability to handle today’s data challenges that SQL-based databases were not designed to handle. It also has enterprise-grade capabilities like search, ACID transactions, failover, replication, and security to run mission-critical applications. MarkLogic combines database functionality, search, and application services in a single system. It provides the functionality enterprises need to deliver value. MarkLogic leverages existing tools, knowledge, and experience while providing a reliable, scalable, and secure platform for mission-critical data. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** Flexibility and stability ### 6. Great Document and XML Storage solutions! **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** It is a rock solid document store. Great indexing capabilities and great queuing ability of documents. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** Mark Logic needs some work with their triple store based approach. Some of the SPARQL commands are to Mark Logic specific and not based on generally accepted methods. **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** Great document store, great XML storage ... not so great when it comes to RDF. But, their technical support team is always willing to work with your approach. Give them a shot, you will not be disappointed! **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage and retrieval of clinical information. ### 7. One of the best products I've ever worked with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** It's reliable, well supported by an expert support team, quick to develop with, provides wholistic features(search+database+application), supports both xml and json. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** Though MarkLogic strives hard to provide the best tools, compared to other databases, it still lags in open source tools due to the fact that it's an expensive proprietary database. Also currently http is the only protocol through which code running in MarkLogic can talk with. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently we're using MarkLogic as a one stop shop for all the metadata about our products, assets, etc. This metadata is being served to customers who need the metadata in a specific format(be it xml, spreadsheet, json). Also we use MarkLogic for developing internal portals which require these metadata as well. Benefits Being able to develop webservices using XQuery helps write complex functionalities that run close to the database layer and ends up performing very well. The amount of time it requires to bootstrap an application/database using MarkLogic is very less compared to other databases and programming languages. MarkLogic is viewed very highly in our company due to the quick turn around by our MarkLogic Support Team for new application development as well as enhancements. ### 8. Marklogic is an Enterprise Document Database which support all the latest features reliably. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** Marklogic is a very Stable product and reliable for transaction based data storage. Its searches are very fast and it support latest trends in NoSQL databases. I believe its one of the pioneers in newer features being introduced in a NoSQL Document Database. The latest of its hottest features is its Semantic based searches. More than the product i think the support offered by their team is really great. I have never waited for more than 24 hours to get my answers on any queries. Some of its legacy features are security , geospatial and backup and restore features which are time tested and more robust. Its newer features other than Semantic are bitemporal, Hadoop support, AWS support etc. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** I think more people need to be made aware of this awesome product. Its less familiar. More easy integrations with Legacy systems should be created. **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** Try to determine where the capabilities of this product has the highest value in your organisation. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to solve healthcare data analysis and processing. ### 9. What MongoDB should have been **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandile K. | Software Engineer, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** MarkLogic has the best features of a document-based database - convenience, concision, composability - with enterprise features that real businesses - professional grade support, ACID compliance. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** Document-based databases will always struggle to compete with the queryability and stability of traditional RDBMSes. As it turns out, SQL is a tough query language to compete with. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** MarkLogic is a really great way to build stable prototypes where you don't what the schema of your data will end up looking like. This is how I've used in the past. ### 10. Marklogic is a centerpiece in our architecture **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** MarkLogic is both a repository and a search engine. It handles XML data natively. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** Some of the search / indexing capabilities need improvement. Its physical architecture is not ideal for cloud deployment (although it works just fine). **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** Consider both your search requirements and your retrieval requirements when evaluating tools in this space. Consider you content enrichment requirements and your performance / latency requirements for getting new documents indexed and searchable **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use MarkLogic as our main search & retrieval engine for all of our content ### 11. Marklogic User **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maria R. | Software Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** Marklogic is the only Data Base that is both operational/transaccional and data store. NoSQL databases have a long way to go. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** There is nothing that I don't like, but they can have a better marketing approach. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing the information properly ### 12. Versatile and stable product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** The efficiency and quick response from the search engine is pretty amazing. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** For bigger clusters, we have noticed issues while performing complex searches. The complex NEAR searches would surrender and throw errors. **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** If you are looking for a stable and reliable engine, MarkLogic would be your answer. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** Works as a search engine and document indexing with multiple language search support. Has been a very stable and reliable product. ### 13. Senior Product Manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** It seems to be a solid and robust database system and we don't really have a lot of issues with it. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** I'm not sure that the language packs are as robust as they need to be. They are also expensive for under-proven software. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use MarkLogic as an operational data store to build search products on. ### 14. Powerful document repository **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** Native XML interface and support for XML Query and Javascript. High quality XML Query documentation. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** Adding indexes can be very time consuming. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** Document storage and search. Because MarkLogic is a document database, it is well suited to our content, which consists of billions of legal documents. ### 15. This is a statement in English, not in an unknown language. It describes an XML database as having great potential. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** Triplestore database Ensure compatibility with XQuery and XPath **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** RDF capability is still in early stages and needs to be thought out **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** Ensure a thorough understanding of the requirements: exercise great caution before examining high data input feeds. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data warehouse; integration of multiple source feeds into one and dashboard of data ### 16. Powerfull System at a very high cost **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2015 **What do you like best about Progress MarkLogic?** One of Marklogic's primary strengths is its ability to provide support for your data storage (as a document data-store) and well as a server for your rest services (for a data access layer). Loved its ability to deploy in AWS via CloudFormationTemplates. Liked its build in dashboards and Admin WebUI. **What do you dislike about Progress MarkLogic?** Licensing cost is very high. AWS costs to cover instances large enough to do what we needed were significant. Amount of space required to store (xml) data seemed excessive - which translated to even higher costs. **Recommendations to others considering Progress MarkLogic:** Be sure to access total cost of owenrship. **What problems is Progress MarkLogic solving and how is that benefiting you?** Without disclosing the specifics of our business, the solution required high volume data ingestion and analysis. The solution also needed to scale for Big Data needed. We were not able to achieve our goals within our target budget. ## Progress MarkLogic Discussions - [What is MarkLogic used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/marklogic-what-is-marklogic-used-for) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is MarkLogic open source?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-marklogic-open-source) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [what will be scope of marklogic developers in future ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/2437-what-will-be-scope-of-marklogic-developers-in-future) - 4 comments, 1 upvote - [View Progress MarkLogic pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-marklogic/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-18+01%3A34%3A54+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=56612e64-2cfb-4f95-9eb1-cc28bf3cee99&secure%5Btoken%5D=0195e874f9a35e7467d41db416c36641c94828192932ec711cca337e6d4193e8&format=llm_user) ## Progress MarkLogic Features **Compatibility** - Federated Search - File Types - Global Language Support **Data Management** - Data Integration - Data Discovery - Multi - Platform - Metadata **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types - Built - In Search - Event Triggers **Search Queries** - Typo Tolerance - Faceted Search - Synonyms - Highlighting - Natural Language **Analytics** - Data Analytics **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **AI powered search - Enterprise Search Software** - Generative RAG (Retrieval augmented generation) - Relevance Tuning - NLP & Semantic search **Functionality** - Personalization - Search Analytics - Integrations **Security** - Compliance - Governance - Data Protection **Performance** - Query Optimization **Compatibility - Enterprise Search Software** - File Types - Federated Search - Global Language Support **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Functionality - Enterprise Search Software** - Personalization - Search Analytics - Integrations **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems - BI Connectors **Search Queries - Enterprise Search Software** - Highlighting - Faceted Search - Typo Tolerance - Synonyms **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Progress MarkLogic Alternatives - [Amazon DynamoDB](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-web-services-aws-amazon-dynamodb/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (498 reviews) - [Alteryx](https://www.g2.com/products/alteryx/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (845 reviews) - [Amazon Redshift](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (370 reviews)