MarkLogic Corporation is an American software business that develops and provides an enterprise NoSQL database, also named ''MarkLogic''. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in San Carlos,

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. MarkLogic is a privately held company with over 500 employees and was acquired by Vector Capital in October 2020. It has offices in the

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, and Australia. The company claims to have over 1,000 customers, including

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, Johnson & Johnson, and the

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. It also claims that six of the top ten global banks are MarkLogic customers. In 2016 Forrester Research ranked MarkLogic as one of the nine leading NoSQL database vendors in the market, and appeared in several

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reports for Operational Database Management Systems. In 2017, Gartner ranked MarkLogic as a 'Visionary' in the

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market.

History

MarkLogic was first named Cerisent and was founded in 2001 by Christopher Lindblad, who was the Chief Architect of the Ultraseek search engine at

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, and 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 in a report 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. The company continues to innovate and has recently released MarkLogic 10 and DataHub 5.

Funding

MarkLogic obtained 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

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. 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,

, and Northgate Capital. This brought the company's total funding to and gave MarkLogic a pre-money valuation of .

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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, and search JSON and

documents and semantic data ( RDF triples).

Releases

* 2001—Cerisent XQE 1.0 * 2004—Cerisent XQE 2.0 * 2005—MarkLogic Server 3.0 * 2006—MarkLogic Server 3.1 * 2007—MarkLogic Server 3.2 * 2008—MarkLogic Server 4.0 * 2009—MarkLogic Server 4.1 * 2010—MarkLogic Server 4.2 * 2011—MarkLogic Server 5.0 * 2012—MarkLogic Server 6.0 * 2013—MarkLogic Server 7.0 * 2015—MarkLogic Server 8.0: Ability to store JSON data and process data using

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. * 2017—MarkLogic Server 9.0: Data integration across Relational and Non-Relational data. * 2019—MarkLogic Server 10.0

Licensing and support

MarkLogic is

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, available under a

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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

XML database An XML database is a data persistence software system that allows data to be specified, and sometimes stored, in XML format. This data can be queried, transformed, exported and returned to a calling system. XML databases are a flavor of document ...

roots to also natively store JSON documents and RDF triples for its

semantic data model Semantic data model (SDM) is a high-level semantics-based database description and structuring formalism (database model) for databases. This database model is designed to capture more of the meaning of an application environment than is possibl ...

. It uses a

distributed architecture A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...

that can handle hundreds of billions of documents and hundreds of

terabyte The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable uni ...

s of data. MarkLogic maintains ACID consistency for transactions and has a Common Criteria certification security model,

high availability High availability (HA) is a characteristic of a system which aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period. Modernization has resulted in an increased reliance on these systems. F ...

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

cloud computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mu ...

environments like

. MarkLogic's Enterprise NoSQL database platform is used in publishing, government, finance and other sectors, with hundreds of large-scale systems in production.

History

Funding

Products

Releases

Licensing and support

Technology

See also

References

Further reading