A large customer of ours is standardizing on Data as a Service (DaaS) for systems development throughout their enterprise. Their plans are great, but I see confusion even within their own team on what, exactly, Data as a Service is and what benefits it is supposed to provide, so I’m writing this blog post to clarify the what, the how and the why of DaaS.

MarkLogic is an Enterprise NoSQL database platform that natively exposes REST or SOAP services (and has for over 10 years) — you could