MarkLogic is an American

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business that develops and provides an enterprise

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database, which is also named ''MarkLogic''. They have offices in the

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, and

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. In February 2023, MarkLogic was acquired by

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for $355 million.

Overview

Founded in 2001 by Christopher Lindblad and Paul Pedersen, MarkLogic Corporation is a privately held company with over 500 employees 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

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at Infoseek, as well as Paul Pedersen, a professor of computer science at

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and

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, and Frank R. Caufield, Founder of Darwin Ventures, to address shortcomings with existing search and data products. The product first focused on using

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document markup standard and

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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,

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, and

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. Post-acquisition, the company named Jeffrey Casale as its new CEO.

Funding

MarkLogic received its first financing of in 2002 led by Sequoia Capital, followed by a investment in June 2004, this time led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. The company received additional funding of $15 million in 2007 from its existing investors Sequoia and Lehman. The same investors put another $12.5 million into the company in 2009. On 12 April 2013, MarkLogic received an additional in funding, led by Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. On May 12, 2015, MarkLogic received an additional in funding, led by Wellington Management Company, with contributions from Arrowpoint Partners and existing backers, Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Northgate Capital. This brought the company's total funding to and gave MarkLogic a pre-money valuation of . NTT Data announced a strategic investment in MarkLogic on 31 May 2017.

Products

The MarkLogic product is considered a multi-model NoSQL database for its ability to store, manage, search

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and

documents and

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data ( RDF triples).

Releases

* 2001 Cerisent XQE 1 * 2004 Cerisent XQE 2 * 2005 MarkLogic Server 3 * 2008 MarkLogic Server 4: Geospatial search, entity extraction, advanced XQuery, performance, scalability enhancements * 2011 MarkLogic Server 5: Flexible replication / DDIL, real-time indexing, advanced search, improved analytics, concurrency enhancements * 2012 MarkLogic Server 6: REST and Java APIs, App Builder, enhanced UI, improved search * 2013 MarkLogic Server 7: Semantics, bitemporal data, tiered storage, improved search, better management * 2015 MarkLogic Server 8: Ability to store

data and process data using

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. * 2017 MarkLogic Server 9: Data integration across Relational and Non-Relational data. * 2019 MarkLogic Server 10: Enhanced Data Hub, improved SQL, security, analytics performance, cloud support * 2022 MarkLogic Server 11: MarkLogic Ops Director (Monitoring and Administration Improvements), expanded PKI

Licensing and support

MarkLogic is

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, available under a freeware developer

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or a commercial "Essential Enterprise" license. Licenses are available from MarkLogic or directly from cloud marketplaces such as

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and Microsoft Azure.

Technology

MarkLogic is a multi-model NoSQL database that has evolved from its

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roots to also natively store

documents and RDF triples for its

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. It uses a distributed architecture that can handle hundreds of billions of documents and hundreds of

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s of data. MarkLogic maintains

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consistency for transactions and has a Common Criteria certification security model,

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, and disaster recovery. It is designed to run on-premises within public or private

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environments like

. 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.