by Angela Guess
David Ramel of ADTMag.com reports, “MarkLogic earlier this week announced an upgrade of its enterprise NoSQL database offering, adding Java and REST APIs in addition to its native XML data model and XQuery programming/query language. With the addition of the Java API to MarkLogic 6, the company said developers can now use popular tools such as the Eclipse IDE and the Model-View-Controller modeling technique.”
Ramel goes on, “The company said the REST API opens up even more possibilities. ‘If you’re not writing in Java — if you’re writing in Ruby or PHP or any language that can call out over HTTP — you can use the REST API,’ Stephen Buxton, director of product management, told this site. ‘And if you’re writing in a JSON-centric language such as JavaScript, MarkLogic handles both XML and JSON,’ he said. ‘So, for example, you can do a query over richly structured XML and get the results back as JSON’.”
He adds, “Buxton also emphasized an increased integrated analytics capability. He said the company added in-database MapReduce functions to support parallel common analytic operations across a cluster. ‘We’ve also added the capability to write your own analytic plugins,’ Buxton said. ‘You can now write C++ code that gets dynamically linked in to the MarkLogic Server executable. You get C++ APIs that let you write your own map and reduce functions, and you get C++ APIs that let you directly interrogate MarkLogic’s in-memory range indexes’.”
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