MARKLOGIC

Founders: Christopher Lindblad
Key people: Gary Bloom (CEO, Pres.)
Number of employees: 500+

MarkLogic Corporation is an American software business that develops and provides an enterprise NoSQL database, also named MarkLogic. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in San Carlos, California. MarkLogic is a privately held company with over 500 employees and has offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

MarkLogic has over 550 customers, including Comcast, Deutsche Bank, Erie Insurance Group, Johnson & Johnson, and the US Army. Also, six of the top ten global banks are MarkLogic customers.

According to Forrester Research, MarkLogic is among the NoSQL databases vendors with the strongest offerings in the market and regularly appears in Gartner Leaders Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems.

History

MarkLogic was first named Cerisent and was founded in 2001 by Christopher Lindblad, who was the Chief Architect of the Ultraseek search engine at Infoseek, and Paul Pedersen, a professor of computer science at Cornell University and UCLA, and Frank R. Caufield, Founder of Darwin Ventures, to address shortcomings with existing search and data products. The product first focused on using XML document markup standard and XQuery as the query standard for accessing collections of documents up to hundreds of terabytes in size.

In 2009 IDC mentioned MarkLogic in a report as one of the top Innovative Information Access Companies with under $100 million in revenue.

In May 2012, Gary Bloom joined MarkLogic as Chief Executive Officer. He held senior positions at Symantec Corporation, Veritas Software, and Oracle, where he was once considered the successor to Larry Ellison. Also in 2012, MarkLogic was selected by the British Broadcasting Corporation to power its Olympic Data Services of the 2012 London Olympics.

Since 1 October 2013, MarkLogic has been used to help power the U.S. government’s healthcare.gov site, launched to support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The site had trouble at launch, and according to the New York Times, the main contractor for ACA originally objected to using MarkLogic.

In February 2015, NBC launched a mobile app for its iconic Saturday Night Live show, and as of September 2015, the app had been used to stream over 100 Million clips. MarkLogic is the database used for storing and searching metadata, and the app also has a predictive engine connected to the database that keeps users engaged with the content.