What:

SAN CARLOS, CA — October 2, 2007 — MarkLogic Corporation, a leading provider of infrastructure software for information applications, today announced that Ron Avnur, engineering manager at MarkLogic Corporation, will present at the biennial High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS) workshop, October 7-9.

Avnur's presentation, entitled “MarkLogic Server: Not Your Grandmother's Database,” will go behind the scenes of the creation of this special purpose database designed for XML and built to handle 100s of terabytes of unstructured and semi-structured information. He will detail the experience of building this commercially-proven enterprise-grade XML content platform from scratch, answering the following questions:

• What turned out to be an implementation exercise?
• What did we engineer?
• And when did we find ourselves doing new science?

The High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS) workshop is a biennial meeting that brings together researchers, implementers, and users of high-scale transaction processing systems. HPTS started in 1985 when a group from leading database companies and universities got together with the goal of sharing ideas to enable database systems to reach the lofty goal of 1,000 transactions per second. The goals have moved on over the years, but the flavor of this small, invitation only workshop has remained the same.

This workshop is an opportunity for builders of large-scale systems to share emerging trends and best practices in an open, interactive environment.

Who:

Ron Avnur is the engineering manager in the MarkLogic product group, responsible for MarkLogic Server. He has been working in database and systems design since 1996, and his experience includes work for enterprise software companies Cohera (PeopleSoft), BusinessLayers (Netegrity), and Informix. Avnur holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science, and a master's degree in computer science, both from University of California, Berkley.

When:

The 2007 HPTS workshop will be held October 7-10, 2007, at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California. Attendance is by invitation only.

For more information please visit http://www.hpts.ws/index.html

Contacts:

Danielle Guinebertiere
MarkLogic
650-655-2365
danielle.guinebertiere@marklogic.com

Lindsey Hart
Eastwick Communications
650-480-4068
lindsey@eastwick.com

About MarkLogic Corporation

MarkLogic Corporation is a leading provider of information infrastructure software, serving industries including media, government, financial services, and others. The company's flagship product, MarkLogic Server, is used by customers to enable a wide variety of information applications including custom publishing, search-based applications, content analytics, unified information access, metadata catalogs, and threat intelligence systems. MarkLogic Server is based on patented innovations and provides state-of-the-art features including location awareness, real-time search, and a shared-nothing cluster architecture that supports high performance against petabyte-scale databases. MarkLogic is headquartered in San Carlos, California with field offices in New York, Washington, London, Boston, Austin, and Frankfurt. The company is privately held with investors Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. For more information, to download a trial version, or to read the award-winning Kellblog, written by MarkLogic CEO Dave Kellogg, go to www.marklogic.com.