Progress MarkLogic Reviews & Product Details

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.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product can be complex to use and does have a somewhat steep learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't anything about it that I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a rock solid document store. Great indexing capabilities and great queuing ability of documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MarkLogic has the best features of a document-based database - convenience, concision, composability - with enterprise features that real businesses - professional grade support, ACID compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MarkLogic is both a repository and a search engine. It handles XML data natively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the search / indexing capabilities need improvement. Its physical architecture is not ideal for cloud deployment (although it works just fine). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marklogic is the only Data Base that is both operational/transaccional and data store.

NoSQL databases have a long way to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing that I don't like, but they can have a better marketing approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.