Donald Soares is CTO of Retail and Consumer at MarkLogic and is based out of our Chicago office. With over 20 years of experience working with Retail, Consumer and E-Commerce clients, Donald has a deep understanding of the unique needs of this vertical. That’s why he is so passionate about championing MarkLogic’s value proposition as the only Enterprise NoSQL database – a technology specifically designed to surmount the Big Data obstacles currently hindering the Retail and

The entire ecology of read-only analytics based on a subset of the Enterprise Data holdings grew out of limitations of RDBMS, which was designed as a way to get the most out of the limited computing capabilities available in the 1970s. Likewise, the modeling necessary to get performance out of an RDBMS has also remained largely the same for over 40 years. RDBMS is a robust multi-billion dollar market. It’s not going away anytime soon. But, for certain organizations these reports and

There is a difference between being schema agnostic and schema free and it isn’t just a pedantic one. As a MarkLogic user, even a non-technical user, you should understand the distinction …

MarkLogic’s flexible support for schemas is an important feature that can help maintain data quality while avoiding the costly burden of complex enterprise data models. If you read the MarkLogic marketing materials, you’ll encounter the phrase “schema agnostic.” Many other NoSQL vendors however

We all have an Uncle Mort – that pragmatic, no bull, calls-it-like-he-sees-it type of guy. Today, I’m going to divulge a secret about how to figure out if you need a document database or not. I’ll start with some technical background, and then we will have a sit down with Uncle Mort!

Let’s just review a few things. NoSQL once meant exactly that — “No SQL” — to describe the category of new databases that did not store rows and columns and were not accessed using SQL. Back then, databases

My wife and I had to go to a wedding in Chicago the first weekend of 2015.  We were fortunate enough to get an earlier flight out and miss all of the fun snow that was just starting to hit – whew!  However, we weren’t so fortunate to not have our luggage lost in the process.

I must admit, I’m not one to check bags.  Being a well-seasoned business traveler, I’m all about filling my 21” Travelpro Suitcase with exactly what I need and still fit it in the overhead bin.  However, this wasn’t a