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This blog is written by Dave Kellogg, CEO of MarkLogic Corporation, covering next-generation information management, enterprise search, and content management technologies along with commentary on Silicon Valley, venture capital, and the business of software.

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Entries Tagged as 'XQuery'

Six Thoughts on The NoSQL Movement

June 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments

We are in the middle of one of our periodic analyst tours at MarkLogic, where we meet about 50 top software industry analysts focused in areas like enterprise search, enterprise content management, and database management systems.  The NoSQL movement was one of four key topics we are covering, and while I’d expected some lively discussions [...]

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Tags: Mark Logic · NoSQL · XML · XQuery

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 [...]

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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

My Thoughts on the NoSQL Database “Tea Party” Post

March 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Without a doubt, the most controversial post I’ve written on this blog was last month’s The Database Tea Party: The NoSQL Movement.  I know this both from the comment stream, but also from the volume and tenor of emails I received from friends and colleagues over the past few weeks. The first thing I learned [...]

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Tags: NoSQL · RDBMS · Stonebraker · XML · XML database · XQuery · relational database

Mark Logic Hosts Webinar to Respond to Oracle XQuery Attack

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments

On Wednesday, January 6th, 2010, Mark Logic will host a webinar where two of Mark Logic‘s XQuery experts will respond to Oracle’s recently published white paper (PDF) which attacks Mark Logic and its implementation of XQuery. The webinar features: Mary Holstege, PhD. Principal Engineer at Mark Logic and member of the W3C XQuery and XML [...]

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Tags: Oracle · XQuery · webinar

Quick Thoughts on the Oracle Hatchet Job on Mark Logic

December 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments

It’s one way to know “we’ve arrived,” I suppose. You can now find, on the very first link under “technical information” on Oracle’s XML DB homepage a link to an Oracle-authored comparison white paper (and I use the term loosely) that compares Oracle 11g XML DB to Mark Logic Server. There’s a lot to say [...]

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Tags: Mark Logic · Oracle · RDBMS · XML · XQuery · native XML