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Apache NiFi: The Easiest Way to Ingest Relational Data to MarkLogic®
Posted by Matt Allen on 13 September 2018 11:00 PM

We are excited to announce support for using Apache NiFi to ingest data into MarkLogic. Apache NiFi is an open source tool for distributing and processing data. When used alongside MarkLogic, it’s a great tool for building ingestion pipelines. NiFi has an intuitive drag-and-drop UI and has over a decade of development behind it, with a big focus on security and governance.

Ingesting Relational Data to NoSQL with NiFi

One of the historical challenges to adopting new NoSQL databases is


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Will Your Artificial Intelligence Project Set Back Your Career?
Posted by David Kaaret on 30 August 2018 08:00 AM

If your Artificial Intelligence (AI) project is bogged down with a wasteful, time-consuming and expensive data-preparation strategy, it could put your career at risk. Here is how you can anticipate and optimize your data-access needs to more effectively determine AI project outcomes, while avoiding potential technology pitfalls.

Anticipating Data-Access Needs for Your AI Project

Artificial Intelligence is a broad topic that encompasses natural language processing, speech and facial recognition,


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Top Data Security Concerns Around Data Integration
Posted by Matt Allen on 16 October 2017 04:58 PM

With data security, it is important to address the tactical details (think incident patterns, attack vectors, dynamic testing, etc.). But, it’s also important to look at the broader, more strategic issues and concerns with data security.

In talking to many of our customers, we identified three top strategic issues with data security that CIO’s, architects, and business leaders are most concerned about:

Concern #1: How traditional data integration with relational databases creates
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Get the ETL Out of Here
Posted by Matt Allen on 19 September 2016 03:00 PM

In this post, I am going to explain how you can significantly reduce the cost and time associated with ETL, by introducing how MarkLogic approaches the process. With MarkLogic, the goal is not really to “get the ETL out of here” — the goal is to take a new, modern approach in which you load as is, search, harmonize, and enrich your data, which we call the “E-L-T approach” — Extract, Load, then Transform. Our customers regularly use this MarkLogic approach because it’s faster and more


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Competing With Amazon: Redesigning Retail Stores of the Future
Posted by Donald Soares on 07 June 2016 12:33 PM

In my last blog post, Four Ways Amazon is Beating Retailers, I wrote about how Amazon has changed the retail game with broader product assortments, higher customer centricity, lower prices and a superior technology stack. But retailers have something that Amazon doesn’t – physical stores, which act as an unlikely competitive advantage. Despite Amazon’s convenience, consumers have proven with brands like Apple, that they still enjoy a fully immersive shopping experience – when done right. Even


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