In recent years, the wave of digital transformation has unleashed innovation and productivity across all industries around the globe. Every organization is grappling with the challenge of creating business value from the massive explosion of new data arriving in real time from multiple sources.

From the COVID-19 pandemic to the current economic headwinds, we’ve all seen just how quickly the business landscape can change. If this keeps you up at night, rest assured you are not alone.

This not-too-technical article covers a number of questions about MarkLogic Server and its use of memory:

• How MarkLogic uses memory;
• Why you might need more memory;
• When you might need more memory;
• How you can add more memory.

Let’s say you have an existing MarkLogic environment that’s running acceptably well.  You have made sure that it does not abuse the infrastructure on which it’s running.  It meets your SLA (may be expressed as something like “99% of searches return within 2