This type of release is not usually something I would write a blog post about—and technically, MarkLogic 8.0-4 is but another in the sequence of maintenance releases that round out the enormous leaps and bounds we made with the release of MarkLogic 8 last February. But we decided to pack a few extra things we’re really excited about that make it more than just an ordinary maintenance release.

There were a few key themes in MarkLogic 8 that we focused on such

Relational databases require ORM, which extracts the data away, tearing apart the data and adding more overhead in the process.

This post is the last one in my series about “why RDBMS aren’t working” to handle today’s data challenges. The previous posts focused on the relational data model being a poor fit for today’s data, and in this post I’m going show why the relational data model is a poor fit for modern app development.

Today, it’s a