At a recent Gartner show in London, one Dominic Spitz built an application on MarkLogic. In under 10 minutes. Without having ever done it before.

You should probably know that Dominic Spitz is not a developer. In fact, he works between the sales and marketing teams of MarkLogic. Prior to this, he’d never before built an app in his life. Keen to learn more about the product he pitches to prospective customers, however, he wanted hands-on experience in the ease and speed of creating

[Note: Amir Halfon is a frequent blogger at FinExtra, a site devoted to the financial technology community. Following is an adaptation from his blog post of January 4.]

In an earlier post, I wrote about the differences between NoSQL, what it is, what it isn’t, and some of the misconceptions surrounding it. First I touched on the Operational Trade Store. Now I will focus on enterprise reference data management. While reference data has a very specific meaning in Financial Services – i.e.

[Note: Amir Halfon is a frequent blogger at FinExtra, a site devoted to the financial technology community. Following is an adaptation from his blog post of January 4.]

In an earlier post, I wrote about the differences between NoSQL, what it is, what it isn’t, and some of the misconceptions surrounding it. First I touched on the Operational Trade Store. Now I will focus on enterprise reference data management. While reference data has a very specific meaning in Financial Services – i.e.

[Note: Amir Halfon is a frequent blogger at FinExtra, a site devoted to the financial technology community. Following is an adaptation from his blog post of January 4.]

In an earlier post, I wrote about the differences between NoSQL, what it is, what it isn’t, and some of the misconceptions surrounding it. First I touched on the Operational Trade Store. Now I will focus on enterprise reference data management. While reference data has a very specific meaning in Financial Services – i.e.

For years MarkLogic was known as an XML repository — so its not surprising that folks don’t think of the Enterprise NoSQL database as natively handling JSON. But handle JSON it does — and very well.

In fact my colleague Dave Cassel just put together a list of JavaScript tools that will help you jumpstart development. If you are primarily using JavaScript than JSON is a very natural fit. “If you are working with a REST API, which I do with most of my apps, having XML come back is harder to