XML and XQuery based applications represent the future of information applications and as such are attracting the attention of organizations such as McGraw-Hill, JetBlue, Visa, the Library of Congress and many others who use MarkLogic Server to take advantage of these technologies.
Recently, Oracle launched an attack on Mark Logic by publishing a white paper aimed at the company and our products. Unfortunately, the paper is full of errors and half-truths and seems to be based on speculation and rumor rather than fact.
Watch the webinar with XML and XQuery expert Mary Holstege, PHD and XQuery expert
and author Stephen Buxton.
Oracle claims:“Mark Logic Server... |
The facts are:“Mark Logic Server... |
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...deviates substantially from W3C standard XQuery language.” |
...is 99.9% compliant with the XQuery 1.0 standard.” |
...provides insufficient support for developing, deploying, migrating, and managing XML applications.” |
...requires less application code and enables rapid development and deployment with a more simplified application architecture via our unique unified information infrastructure.” |
...supports only few usage scenarios of accessing to and delivering of content for content repurposing and structured search and navigation against XML content.” |
...has unique architecture enabling it to be used in thousands of different scenarios covering a wide range of information applications.” |
...is a costly product to purchase and will cost much more to maintain due to its support of proprietary APIs and its lack of an ecosystem.” |
...provides comprehensive architecture designed to run on commodity hardware means it can replace a DBMS, search engine and application server saving organizations money.” |