Banking data workflows have become faster and now support rich PDF and media management
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for MarkLogic is data development. We have a banking type of data, so we used to convert it to PDF or use some for applications we were running.
A quick, specific example of how I use MarkLogic with my banking data involves creating PDFs based on XML files and developing subscription kind of applications. In that, we used to send scheduled PDFs and some scheduled emails generated from that application using MarkLogic.
In addition to my main use case, I also perform development and some MarkLogic admin work as well.
What is most valuable?
In my experience, the best features MarkLogic offers include indexing, which is a quick and efficient way to get the files and I really appreciate that.
The indexing feature of MarkLogic has helped my work by being quick, faster, and very helpful for the team to get the code quicker and to ensure everything is fast.
MarkLogic has positively impacted my organization by making everything quick and fast, and I believe that is a major change we have seen here. In fact, the development process is much quicker than other applications we were using previously.
What needs improvement?
As for areas where MarkLogic can be improved, nothing else comes to mind. I have been using MarkLogic for seven years, and many improvements have already been addressed. I do not recall any additional needed improvements.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using MarkLogic for around seven years.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we were using SQL, but to save the PDFs and everything was not possible in SQL. Right now, it is possible in MarkLogic to save all the images, videos, and everything, which is very useful, and that is why we switched from SQL to MarkLogic.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment as time is really being saved using MarkLogic.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, I find it quite high compared to other things, but I believe it is justified.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
My advice for others looking into using MarkLogic is that it is a better way than SQL and while some main things can be improved, it is the best way right now in the market.
What other advice do I have?
I chose a nine for my rating because it is faster, and I deducted one point because of the price of MarkLogic. My overall review rating is 9.
Marklogic review by a Senior Consultant
What do you like best about the product?
Below are some of the features that I like about Marklogic
1. Multi media database capabilities- The storage and ability to manage different types of data models in single platform has helped me to run my projects simultaneously handling data types such as JSON, XML
2. Enterprise Search Functionality- The in built search options had helped me in searching across all data types. The feature also helped me to search using full text, range queries etc.
3. Storage and Query capability- This feautre helped me in optimizing the storage infrastructure by placing data in different storage tiers. It helped me to reduce the cost incurred and the data can be accessed frequently .
What do you dislike about the product?
Below are some of the dislikes of Marklogic
1. Learning curve- despite the features , marklogic proven to be having a deep learning curve.
2. Cost and Licensing - The total ownership model is having a greated inmpact in taking this software as a package for any development. The cost will be a barrier to any small and medium sized projects. Even though my org has provided access to this platform by to get to that stage we had to go through a lot of to and fro
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The software helped me in storing and managing documents which is in xml format. The software helped us in preventing the doc structure which was crucial for my project.
The project also helped me explore the advanced search capabilities by frequently using this for searching content within XML.
Database, search engine and integration tool rolled into one
What do you like best about the product?
It's multimodel structure of combining different files is really helpful. It has capability to handle both structured and unstructured data is great and its build in AI capability is greats.
What do you dislike about the product?
Building predefined models on large datasets takes a lot of time. Documentation could have been better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it as a database and ETL tool capable of building models quickly.
MarkLogic- A powerful tool/database for all your NoSQL transactions.
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about the Mark Logic is that it is a single platform that combines the capability of being a database,a search engine.
It also provides the tools for data integrations.
It is comparatively fast,economical and easier to manage.
It is very easy to use and the customer support is also very prompt to response.
The features are easy to implement and can be integrfated with other tools as well.
Even an unexperienced person can implement its features thus it is frequently use in our organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
The User interface could be improved to be more user friendly.
The spreadsheet capabilities can also be increased.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it to cater the data integration capabilities for one of our client working in the pharma sector.
The amount of data that is being processed is very large and it requires a platform that can caters the ever growing need of the database along with the faster processing and MarkLogic proves to be a perfect tool for it.
Very efficient database platform
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful feature in this platform is having multi level database with AI features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike for now, very helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Marklogic can handle both structured and unstructured database, which is very helpful and effective to use.
Capable & Efficient Product
What do you like best about the product?
Listed are the things which I liked most about Marklogic -
a. The flexibilty it provides to handle various type of data
b. Its in-build capability to support CICD.
c. Its capability to integrate with Pega
What do you dislike about the product?
Couple of things, I think Marklogic can improve -
a. Increase its community base as sometimes it becomes tad difficult to find support.
b. Sometimes it crashes so there is a need to improve on the stability/relaibity of the product.I am sure it will be worked upon in future releases
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have integrated Marklogic with our Pega system for case management and its perfomance has been above expectation.
A No SQL Database platform with great query capability and amazing user Interface
What do you like best about the product?
Most usefull thig in marklogic is the multi format data ingetion(XML,JSOn etc), it is having a query runner which supports multiple query language which was very usefull, also unlike other nosql provider it suuports ACID property which can be a USP in this segment,
I personaly find setting up security parameters were very user friendly , as We were working with data form different type of customer.
What do you dislike about the product?
One problem i personaly feel, even though the user interface is amazing still sometime it confuses me as it is having a huge feature,
Also as the company offers robust solution so they definetly need to increase their community,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As we were getting raw data form different sources so our data was coming in various format, sometime XML sometime JSON , we need a solution where we dont need to worry about data imports, supporting multiple data ingetion format marklogic solves this issue,
Also we maintain transaction in some cases so we needed the ACID property which is very uncommon in other document databases, Marklogic solves this issue very effciently by supporting ACID property
A new NoSQL DB very competitive
What do you like best about the product?
The advanced search capabilities make it most competitive, it could be doc. JSON, XML even Binary Data. That's amazing. Beyond on that, it has Multi-Model Approaching; ACID compliance; and government-grade security, plus Metadata management. A lot of wonderful features.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost for usint it overally expensive. Licensing, maintenance all not very friendly to small companies. Also, Learning to master it is kind of complex. To make it fully functional like a rocket, depends on how much you know it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are currently using 'traditional' DB like Oracle/DB2/SQL-Server ...... in transition to cloud and other non-SQL database, we find MarkLogic is a spotlight.
By test use it, we can resolve those Voice; Picture and other big data (non-traditional) search and management. With later possible AI add in, this may be a direction to go.
MarkLogic is a great NOSQL DB
What do you like best about the product?
- Support for the AI capabilities and enterprise-level features.
- Data Security, scalability and governance.
What do you dislike about the product?
- The performance needs to be better.
- High Cost
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Elevated the data management experience and the document databases are really useful.
Simple to use data platform
What do you like best about the product?
MarkLogic worked best cuz its capabilities as a NoSQL database that combines the features of a document-oriented database and a search engine. It appeals to be cuz it is schema-agnostic because it doesn't require a fixed schema, which allows for flexible data modeling and easy adaptation to changing data structures.
What do you dislike about the product?
Probably would be the learning curve that MarkLogic had for users who came from using relational databases. It has features like semantic technology and document-centric data model may require some time to fully understand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps a lot when handling unstructured or semi-structured data as we struggled with managing unstructured data, such as documents, media files, or metadata. MarkLogic provided a document-centric approach and support for multiple data formats allowing us to store, index, search, and analyze various types of data efficiently, leading to better content management and data utilization.
