According to numerous research reports, organizations are struggling to manage and leverage unstructured information. While the definitions may vary from one organization to another, common examples of unstructured information may include: documents, metadata, content, user-generated content, RSS feeds, email, geospatial data, and XML among others. Typically, unstructured information has one or more of the following characteristics:

• Heterogeneous (different formats, varying standards, irregular lengths, etc.)
• Constantly evolving in ways that may be unanticipated
• Growing exponentially

These characteristics make it difficult to manage unstructured information using previous technologies, such as relational databases, which typically expect reasonably-sized data that is normalized and conforms to a pre-defined schema.

This is where MarkLogic comes in ...

MarkLogic Corporation is revolutionizing the way organizations leverage information. Their flagship product is a purpose-built database for unstructured information. Based on patented innovations, MarkLogic Server enables customers in industries including media, government and financial services to develop and deploy information applications at a fraction of the time and cost it takes with conventional approaches.

The company is led by pioneers in search engine technologies, database management systems, and business intelligence software. Their founder saw that the traditional ways of managing and delivering information using relational databases and search engines were no longer sufficient. The increasing volume and variety of information necessary for enterprises to leverage required a radically new approach.

The key differentiators of MarkLogic Server are:

• Speed – 10x to 100x performance improvement compared to traditional technologies like relational databases
• Agility – applications developed and deployed in weeks and months instead of years
• Scale – dynamic scaling to terabytes today and petabytes tomorrow

Make the tool fit your data rather than your data fit the tool! - MarkLogic is replacing relational DBMS to solve 21st century challenges. Organizations are struggling to address today's information management challenges:

• How can we leverage heterogeneous information trapped in various data silos?
• How can we adequately leverage the ever-growing amounts of unstructured information?
• How do we deliver the most relevant information to users to support better decision-making and not overwhelm them instead?
• What new information will be important for us to capture and take advantage of going forward?
• How can we address these questions in a timely manner and within budget?

MarkLogic is the database that enables customers to build information-rich applications to address these challenges on time and on budget, compared to traditional technologies like relational databases.