U.S. Air Force Research Lab Creates MarkLogic-Based Data Platform to Make Safer and More Powerful Planes, Tools, and More
Products:
MarkLogicChallenge
- Data silos
- Data integration
- Inflexible and inaccessible software
- Massive amounts of data (a simulation could produce an exabyte of data in one month)
- Data governance
Solution
- Operational Data Hub
- Search
- Semantics
- API
- Security
Result
- Realizing a performance increase of 100x
- Securely discovering and sharing information
- Reducing costs, development hours, and redundancies
- Optimizing research resources
Full Story
Challenge
The U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) has created the HyperThought™ data management platform — a scalable, agile, and flexible way to make exabytes of data discoverable and securely shareable for 700 scientists and engineers, with thousands more external collaborators. By creating its data platform on MarkLogic, AFRL increased its performance a hundredfold, saving tens of thousands of hours in development.
We used MongoDB early on, but we realized there are so many things that you can’t do with it, like built-in search, Semantics, and true RDF expression of our data models.
Matthew Jacobsen
Systems Analyst & Developer, US Air Force Research Lab
Solution
Early efforts with MongoDB showed that HyperThought held promise, but it required major effort to tether together critical missing pieces and derive benefit from the data. AFRL needed to add search, security, semantics, and performance at scale with a multi-model format; for these reasons, it selected MarkLogic to serve as the foundation for HyperThought.
Result
Flexibility, Agility, Scalability
Adding new data sources, changing data models, and increasing data volumes are surmountable challenges with HyperThought.
Efficiency
Historical tests and results are now discoverable and usable, improving efficiency across development and research.
Collaboration
Scientists can now securely share data, which fosters collaboration with other researchers like Lawrence Livermore National Labs.
