Details
- Vendor
- Progress Software
- Type
- Multiple
- Category
- Enterprise
- License
- Proprietary
- Language
- C++
- Query Languages
- SPARQLXQuerySQL
- Protocols
- HTTP/RESTSPARQL ProtocolPostgreSQL wireJDBC/ODBCNative binary
MarkLogic
A multi-model NoSQL database with native RDF triple storage, SPARQL support, and semantic reasoning. Combines JSON, XML, and RDF data models with ACID transactions and integrated full-text search.
- Overall rank
- #52
- First released
- 2001
- License
- Proprietary
- Built with
- C++
Details
Sources 9 references
Protocols HTTP/REST, SPARQL Protocol, JDBC/ODBC, PostgreSQL wire, Native binary
MarkLogic ships five distinct client channels, confirmed independently: the generic REST Client API (document CRUD/search); a dedicated W3C SPARQL Protocol endpoint at /v1/graphs/sparql that is separate from the general REST surface; official ODBC and JDBC drivers whose app server (port 5432) literally speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol; and the still-current XDBC/XCC proprietary wire protocol for Java middleware (confirmed present in the current v12 admin docs, not just legacy v9). pass_A missed SPARQL Protocol and JDBC; pass_B missed PostgreSQL wire and Native binary.
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The Client REST API is a REST-based API for creating applications that with document manipulation and search capabilities.
Client API — MarkLogic 12 Product Documentation · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
This interface implements the GET method of the W3C SPARQL Protocol; for details, see http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-sparql11-protocol-20130321#query-operation.
GET /v1/graphs/sparql — MarkLogic 12 Product Documentation · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
The server implements a database native communication protocol that can efficiently support both ODBC and JDBC clients.
MarkLogic JDBC Driver · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
The default PostgreSQL listening socket port is 5432.
Creating a New ODBC Server · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
an ODBC server connects with a PostgreSQL front end on the client by means of the PostgreSQL message protocol
ODBC Servers (Administrator's Guide) — MarkLogic 9 Product Documentation · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
Both XCC and XDBC applications use the same wire protocol.
XDBC Servers · reviewed 2026-08-02
License Proprietary
Confirmed; no change from current value. MarkLogic is distributed as binary executable software under a commercial license, with no source code disclosure.
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Licensor grants to You a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive, internal use license to install, access, start and use Licensor software in binary executable form
EULA - MarkLogic Community · reviewed 2026-08-02
Released 2001
Confirmed; no change from current value. MarkLogic's first product, Cerisent XQE 1, shipped in 2001 under the company's original name, Cerisent.
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2001 – Cerisent XQE 1: ACID transactions, Full-text search, XML Storage, XQuery, Role-based security
MarkLogic Server · reviewed 2026-08-02
Language C++
Confirmed; no change from current value. MarkLogic's own technical documentation attributes its performance to the core engine's native C++ code; Wikipedia's infobox additionally lists C and JavaScript, but JavaScript there refers to the embedded V8 engine used for user application code, not the storage/query kernel.
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Speed and scale are an obsession for MarkLogic. They're not features you can add after the fact; they have to be part of the core design. And they are, from the highly optimized native C++ code to the algorithms we'll discuss later.
Inside MarkLogic Server · reviewed 2026-08-02