Tag: MarkLogic

What is the performance impact of using a large number of collections? How does the collection lexicon work?

When HealthCare.gov was launched in 2013, it was one of the most ambitious data integration projects ever undertaken. As millions of Americans shopped for health insurance, they needed to check their eligibility against dozens of federal and commercial sources.   This all-important information was provided by various state and federal agencies, as well as private […]

Where will you be 11:35 pm EST on Saturday, October 3rd? I bet, like me, many of you will be lounging on the couch and laughing while watching the premiere of the 41st season of Saturday Night Live (SNL). To get ready, I’m getting reacquainted with the fun and smart application NBC created on MarkLogic. But […]

“Thru 2018, 70 percent of Hadoop deployments will not meet cost savings and revenue generation objectives due to skills and integration challenges.”  – Nick Heudecker, Gartner Analyst A Gartner research report on Apache Hadoop found that 46 percent of companies surveyed plan Hadoop investments, marking a slow but steady adoption. However, there are still questions […]

By now you may have heard that Apache Spark is the fastest growing project in open source ‘Big Data’ community. Spark does not include its own distributed data persistence technology but can work with any Hadoop-compatible data formats. You can use the MarkLogic Connector for Hadoop as an input source to Spark and take advantage of the Spark framework to develop your ‘Big Data’ applications on top of MarkLogic.