We generally refer to MarkLogic Server as an XML server, which is a special-purpose database management system (DBMS) for unstructured information. This often sparks debate about the term “unstructured” and the information continuum in general. Surprisingly, while both analysts and vendors frequently discuss the concept, the Wikipedia entry for information continuum is weak, and I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'semi-structured data'
The Information Continuum and the Three Types of Subtly Semi-Structured Information
May 11th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Tags: Database · Database management system · semi-structured data · unstructured data
Yes, Virginia, MarkLogic is a NoSQL System
April 11th, 2010 · 8 Comments
The other day I noticed a taxonomy used on one of the NoSQL Database blogs that went like this: Types of NoSQL systems Core NoSQL Systems Wide column stores Document stores Key-value / tuple stores Eventually consistent key-value stores Graph databases Soft NoSQL Systems (not the original intention …) Object databases Grid database solutions XML [...]
Tags: Hadoop · MapReduce · Michael Stonebraker · NoSQL · Open source · RDBMS · SQL · Uncategorized · XML · XML database · XQuery · database management systems · information infrastrutcure · relational database · semi-structured data · special-purpose DBMS · unstructured data
IEEE Computer Society Article on NoSQL; An Executive-Level Overview
March 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments
I found this article today, Will NoSQL Databases Live Up To Their Promise? (PDF), in the IEEE Computer Society publication called Computing Now. It’s a great IT executive-level overview of NoSQL systems, which explains things at (what one friend calls) a “big animal pictures” level. I’d caution that it’s written by the head of a [...]
Tags: NoSQL · semi-structured data · unstructured data
