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Old Dog, New Tricks – and Agile Modeling
Posted by James Wonder on 31 October 2017 02:01 PM

I had a realization today; I am getting old…

It happens to all of us, but my epiphany came while talking to a colleague over a cup of coffee and discussing data challenges. When I first got into the business world as a young, geeky Unix developer, the business would decide what they needed and we would build it for them. The challenges were easier and the data was certainly more straightforward. Today with the data being complex and voluminous, the capability and speed at which we can process


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Old Dog, New Tricks – and Agile Modeling
Posted by James Wonder on 31 October 2017 01:00 AM

I had a realization today; I am getting old…

It happens to all of us, but my epiphany came while talking to a colleague over a cup of coffee and discussing data challenges. When I first got into the business world as a young, geeky Unix developer, the business would decide what they needed and we would build it for them. The challenges were easier and the data was certainly more straightforward. Today with the data being complex and voluminous, the capability and speed at which we can process


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Does MarkLogic Really Do What We Say It Does?
Posted by Alicia Saia on 19 January 2017 07:59 AM

A lot of the marketing material we put out here at MarkLogic talks about the improved agility we enable for our customers – decreasing their time to value and time to market for new products, as well as making it easier for them to adjust to changes in their business requirements. But, anyone can say anything, right? The trick is proving it.

Well, we have. Again.


A 6X Improvement in Time to Value

Earlier this year, MarkLogic was asked to participate in a “proof of concept” (POC) with a Fortune


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Take Your Training ‘To-Go’ with MarkLogic University
Posted by Kari Szul on 05 January 2016 10:18 AM

We’re always looking for new ways to make it easier to get up to speed on our MarkLogic database. Recently, I sat down with Greg Nist, Senior Manager, MarkLogic University to find out about the newly released MLU training app. This new app supports our goal of creating a portfolio of different ways for users to access our free training content. Consider this an invite to download the app, take it for a spin and tell us what you think.


What is the MLU App?
At the start of this project, we asked
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RDBMS Are A Mismatch For Modern App Development
Posted by Matt Allen on 20 November 2015 08:00 AM

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.

Why Are High Costs and Failed Projects The Norm?

Today, it’s a


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