“Should we go open source or proprietary?”

That oft-repeated question is actually not so black and white—and like most things in life there is a whole lot of grey. Today, open source is usually not purely open source. And, die-hard proprietary software companies are today buying open source companies and running their own open source projects. Net-net, both the open source and proprietary models produce good software—and that’s what we all want in the end. But, I’d simply like to debunk

After hearing that MarkLogic has been around since 2001, people coming by our booth at the Strata Conference in Santa Clara couldn’t help but wonder how on earth they didn’t know about this database that can do so much.

It’s because we were NoSQL before NoSQL was cool… so now that it is cool, MarkLogic is getting attention. Besides the fun fact that we were one of the first in the NoSQL space, another plus to being around that long is that we are tried and true. MarkLogic is a

Hello DB-Engines,

I was just looking at your MarkLogic listing, and wanted to make you aware that there are actually three ways in which MarkLogic supports MapReduce:

1.       Our Hadoop connector allows customers to run Hadoop MapReduce jobs on data in MarkLogic. Doing this can be much faster and more secure than running Hadoop MapReduce jobs over the same corpus in HDFS because you can specify query constraints on the universe of documents you want to map, and we’ll use our fast

MarkLogic hit the Gems Lounge in Boston.

The tour rolled into Boston this week and despite the skies opening, we managed a robust and avid audience. My colleague at MarkLogic, Amir Halfon CTO of Financial Services was my cohort and we spent a good portion of time demystifying how a NoSQL (not-only) database works. Not surprisingly, with seemingly a zillion NoSQL options out there people are completely confused. Amir related how there are three flavors: Document, Graph and Key-Value

When our road show stopped in the City by the Bay, we discussed a different way of doing things – a necessary escape from the relational world because 80% of the world’s data today doesn’t fit into rows and columns. Panelists Christopher Lindblad, Greg Shepherd, Palanivelu (Bala) Balasubramanian, and Jason Hunter chatted about enterprise needs and the impetus to quickly innovate.

The panel was a lively one. MarkLogic Founder Chris Lindblad waved his hands talking about the origins of