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MarkLogic 9 Tutorials
- MarkLogic Data Hub Service on AWS
- Leverage the MarkLogic Data Hub as a fully automated cloud service. Get started using it in AWS.
- Entity Services
- Design applications around real-world concepts, or entities.
- Optic API
- Blends the relational world with rich NoSQL document features by providing the capability to perform joins and aggregates over documents.
- Template Driven Extraction
- Define a relational or semantic lens over your document data, specifying which parts of documents make up rows in a view or triples.
- Data Movement SDK
- Java library for applications that need to move large amounts of data into, out of, or within a MarkLogic cluster.
- Building a Search and Export App with the Data Movement SDK
- This tutorial walks you through the basics of the Data Movement SDK so you have the tools to build a search and export app.
Recipes
Recipes provide easily reusable solutions to common problems. Check out our collection.
White Papers
- Inside MarkLogic Server
- This eBook provides a high-level introduction in Chapter One and then dives deep into technical capabilities that developers and architects will appreciate.
- Integrating with Single Sign-On
- This guide explains how applications built on MarkLogic can be integrated with SSO solutions at the database layer in order to prevent passwords from being directly sent to MarkLogic.
- Performance: Understanding System Resources
- This guide provides details about MarkLogic core functions and operations so that DBAs, Infrastructure Architects, Developers and Engineers can configure MarkLogic for optimal success.
- Hardware Reference Architecture: Direct Attached Storage
- Provide details on commodity hardware recommendations, recommended hardware and RAID configurations for commodity hardware, and basic forest layout recommendations for Direct Attached Storage.
- MarkLogic On AWS
- MarkLogic runs easily on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a flexible, cost-effective, easy-to-use cloud computing platform. Read about general best practices and MarkLogic implementation characteristics such as performance, durability, and security with particular attention to identifying features that support scalability, high availability, and fault-tolerance.
Featured tutorials
Java
- The Java API in 5 minutes
- Get a taste of what the code looks like.
- Learning the MarkLogic Java API
- Take a hands-on deep dive.
- Writing and Searching POJOs
- Learn how MarkLogic makes persisting & searching POJOs a walk in the park.
REST
- The REST API in 5 minutes
- Get a taste of the REST API without getting your hands too dirty.
- Learning the MarkLogic REST API
- This is a hands-on deep dive into managing, searching, and querying data via MarkLogic's REST API.
XQuery
- Developing XQuery Applications
- Construct your first simple XQuery application.
- Interactive XQuery playground
- Experiment with XQuery in MarkLogic from the comfort of your own browser.
- 5-minute guide to the Search API
- Learn hands-on all the building blocks of a powerful search application.
JavaScript
- The Node.js Client API in 5-minutes
- A quick taste of the Node.js Client API.
- Node.js Client API Getting Started
- Get started with the MarkLogic Node Client API.
- JSearch in 5 Minutes
- Get a taste of the Server-side JavaScript JSearch API.
- Server-side JavaScript Getting Started
- Get started with the Server-side JavaScript JSearch API.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Geospatial Region Search FAQ
- Common questions about comparing regions
- Geospatial Double Precision FAQ
- Common questions about double-precision geospatial indexes
- Hadoop Integration FAQ
- Questions about integration between Hadoop and MarkLogic
- Questions About Semantics
- Have questions about Semantics? We've got answers.
- Template Driven Extraction (TDE) FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions about TDE
Modeling and Loading Data
- Data Modeling Guidelines
- General data modeling guidelines for XML and JSON documents in MarkLogic.
- Entity Services
- Design applications around real-world concepts, or entities.
- Data Movement SDK
- Java library for applications that need to move large amounts of data into, out of, or within a MarkLogic cluster.
- Template Driven Extraction (TDE) FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions about TDE
- MarkLogic Content Pump
- Download and get started using this command-line tool for moving data into and out of MarkLogic.
Semantics
- Questions About Semantics
- Have questions about Semantics? We've got answers.
- Semantics Exercises
- Learn via a series of hands-on challenges.
Other tutorials
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| Building a Search and Export App with the Data Movement SDK This tutorial walks you through the basics of the Data Movement SDK so you have the tools to build a search and export app. |
| Getting Started with MarkLogic Data Hub Service on AWS MarkLogic Data Hub Service lets your business focus on actually taking advantage of your data rather than have to worry about cloud computing concerns. This guide is intended to get non-AWS folks up and running, and will focus on the different parts to get up and running. It is divided into two parts: System Administrator and Developer. |
| Web Services with MarkLogic Server This tutorial will walk the reader through the process of developing a simple SOAP web service wrapper to exemplify how a SOAP request might be passed to MarkLogic Server. |
| Entity Services Model-driven data integration around real-world entities |
| Optic API Native language query interface to perform joins and aggregates over documents |
| Template Driven Extraction |
| Data Movement SDK |
| Semantics Recipe: Semantic Infobox Recipe for how to create a Semantic Infobox |
| Developing XQuery Applications: Part 1 |
| Developing XQuery Applications, Part 2 |
| JSearch in 5 Minutes JSearch is a new Server-side and high-level Javascript API that makes common search tasks (search, facets, and aggregates) easy. This tutorial will provide a quick introduction of using the API. |
| The Node.js Client API in 5 Minutes |
| Getting Started with the Node Client API Learn the basics of the Node.js Client API |
| Customized Tokenization Hands-on code examples for configuring the tokenization of hashtags, user names, and phone numbers inside tweets. |
| Using an Aggregation Function via REST Aggregation function In a recent post, I showed how to build a your own with MarkLogic 6... |
| A MapReduce Aggregation Function MarkLogic has the ability to call out to C++ code to do Map/Reduce calculations... |
| The Inside Story -- Configuration and Status Information Introducing tools and a RESTful API for access to MarkLogic Server configuration and status information. |
| Developing XQuery Applications: Part 1 |
| Developing XQuery Applications, Part 2 |
| Writing and Searching POJOs in MarkLogic
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| 5-minute Guide to Packaging Packaging, part of the suite of Configuration Management features, makes it easy to move application server and database configurations between machines. Run through this tutorial to get up to speed. |
| SQL to MarkLogic mapping Helpful analogies for those coming to MarkLogic from an RDBMS world |
| Query, Search, and Indexing |
| Inside MarkLogic Server This paper describes the MarkLogic Server internals: its data model, indexing system, update model, and operational behaviors. It's intended for a technical audience — either someone new to MarkLogic wanting to understand its capabilities, or someone already familiar with MarkLogic who wants to understand what's going on under the hood. |
| Eclipse Plugin Setup Instructions Step-by-step instructions to getting set up with MarkLogic and the Eclipse XQDT Plugin |
| Serving Images with MarkLogic Server |
| RecordLoader: Ingesting XML with Knife, Fork, and Shovel |
| XQSync: a Wheelbarrow for Content |
| Using XML Schema with MarkLogic Server |
| An Introduction to MarkLogic Server and XQuery A technical introduction to MarkLogic Server is, what you can do with it, and how to use it via XQuery. |
| PerformanceMeters: Test Harness for XQuery |
| Integrating MarkLogic Server With the Apache Webserver |
| Day One Concepts and Terms |
| Paginated Search for Web Applications |
| MLJAM: An XQuery Library for Evaluating Java Code |
| Data Management |
| 5-minute Guide to the Search API This introductory tutorial walks you through a complete sample application of the Search API, quickly covering a large range of its features. |
| ISO-8601 Dates in Java and XQuery |
| Using The MarkLogic XQuery JSP Tag Library |
| Data Model |
| MLSAM: An XQuery Library for Relational Database Access |
| MLJAM: Wire Protocol Documentation |
Videos
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 What is Enterprise NoSQL |
| 65 Million Emails and Growing – Search and Analysis in seconds |
| How does MarkLogic Fit in Your World? |
| Getting Started with MarkLogic and EC2 |
| Getting Started with MarkLogic and Amazon Cloud Formation |
| Query Console |
| New features in Query Console as of MarkLogic 7 |
| Plugin for Nagios Screencast |
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