MarkLogic Releases MarkLogic 5

Catering to the needs of Big Data applications across the enterprise, MarkLogic Corporation has unveiled MarkLogic 5.

By empowering organizations to build Big Data applications that make information actionable, MarkLogic 5 defines Big Data. Organizations get smarter answers faster by analyzing structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data in the same application with MarkLogic 5.

This allows a complete view of the health of the enterprise. Key features include the MarkLogic Connector for Hadoop, which marries large-scale batch processing with the real time Big Data applications, the company has announced in a press release.

“Most of the hype around Big Data has focused only on the big or on the analytics,” said Ken Bado, president and CEO, MarkLogic. “For nearly a decade, MarkLogic has been helping its customers build cost effective Big Data applications that create competitive advantage. That means going beyond big and analytics to make information actionable so organizations can create real value for their business. With MarkLogic, multi-billion dollar companies like JP Morgan (News - Alert) Chase and LexisNexis have redefined their business models.”

For Big Data Analytics on the structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data residing inside MarkLogic, the MarkLogic Connector for Hadoop powers large-scale batch processing.

Using MarkLogic for real time analytics with Hadoop for batch processing brings the best of Big Data to companies that need real time, secure, enterprise applications that are cost effective with high performance. Organizations can run MapReduce on data inside MarkLogic and take advantage of Hadoop's development and management tools with simple drop-in installation.

Recently, the company announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected MarkLogic to power its Emergency Operations Network (EON). EON is the program used by the FAA to monitor and track severe weather and emergencies, with a dashboard that is updated in real-time for crisis management.

The EON program plays an integral part in tracking natural and man-made disasters and in coordinating the response to emergency situations.