MarkLogic Releases Version 5!
MarkLogic, providers of mission-critical big data applications, have launched Version 5 of their popular next generation database for Big Data and unstructured information. Delivering the flexibility to build and deploy information application, organisations will also be able to adapt more quickly to changing market conditions and business needs.
All the traditional key characteristics of MarkLogic are still available, such as schema-agnostic, scalable, flexible and extendable. Also incorporated are features like Geospatial which combines geographical data and textual information, Alerting that notifies users in real time when relevant information has been delivered, and Replication that distributes documents to remote MarkLogic clusters, a critical element of disaster recovery solutions.
Matt Aslett, Senior Analyst for Enterprise Software at the 451 Group says that Big Data is a significant trend, but the challenge is getting at the valuable data… “We believe the most significant driver of Big Data is he value of the data, not the size. Organisations need to generate value from data whatever its volume, variety or velocity.”
MarkLogic 5 now means that organisations can make high stake decisions on Big Data in real time, retrieving answers quicker by managing complexity and delivering confidence at scale. Key new features include:
• Rich media support – enabling users to store and manage rich media, such as images and video, together with textual data, helping to consolidate infrastructure, reduce administration costs and speed up development of rich media applications.
• Document filters – run full text searches on more than 200 document and rich media formats, enabling automatic extraction of metadata and text, eliminating the cost of manually converting legacy formats.
• MarkLogic Connector for Hadoop™ - combine batch processing with capabilities for ad hoc, real time analytics enabling users to run specialised, low level batch processing on raw data, and new previously unanticipated queries on an ongoing basis.
• Database replication – protect your Big Data solutions from site-wide disasters, reducing the risk and cost of unexpected downtime. A high performance, low latency, transaction aware system for creating exact database copies to remote sites, for both a browser-based interface and an API for configuration and recovery.
• Point-in-time recovery – recover from backups then roll forward using transaction log to a specific point-in-time, allowing users to minimise the window for lost data between the occurrence of a disaster and the time the last backup was taken.
• Tiered storage – boost Big Data solution performance by adding a Solid State Drive (SSD) tier between memory and disk drives. MarkLogic manages the tier automatically so that it is easy to get the most out of fast, but limited capacity drives.
• Monitoring dashboard – browser-based view of your cluster’s instrumentation data, with real time charts or metrics such as I/O rates and loads, request activity and disk usage.
• Monitoring and Management API – a REST API for getting real time metrics of your MarkLogic deployment, seamlessly integrating with enterprise monitoring and reporting tools to improve system visibility.
• Smart Plug-In for HP Operations Manager and plug-in for Nagios® - monitor clusters with the IT monitoring tool that you already use for your existing infrastructure, supporting out-of-the-box integration with HP Operations Manager and Nagios.
• Configuration manager – extract, compare and apply configuration settings between different environments for quick update and validation, track configuration changes and revert to previous versions in case of an error in the configuration settings.
• Query console – browser-based query interface enabling users to run ad hoc queries, quickly verifying query output and performance , profiling codes to optimise queries running over huge data sets, and supporting project workspaces to simplify code management.
• REST library – simplifies the development of REST interfaces to access stored data.
• Distributed transaction support – for XA/JTA enabling integration with a transaction manager to synchronise writes spanning across MarkLogic and other repositories.
MarkLogic have also announced the launch of MarkLogic Express, a new free license for students and developers to help them familiarise themselves with MarkLogic.
Ken Bado, CEO of MarkLogic, said earlier this year, “The express license was one of my early goals with the company. Now students and developers have the ability to build out their own MarkLogic instances and take them into production.”
Written by: Allie Philpin