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Is MarkLogic the Right Database for Me?

  • 27 April, 2024
  • By Dave Cassel

Progress MarkLogic is an enterprise, multi-model, NoSQL database, search engine, and application server. It’s able to cover a lot of use cases, but there’s only one that matters — the one you’re trying to implement. How do you know whether MarkLogic is the right fit? If you’re considering MarkLogic, see the special offer at the […]

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String Interpolation in Apache NiFi

  • 22 April, 2024
  • By Dave Cassel

In one of my recent posts, I talked about ExecuteScriptMarkLogic, a handy processor for getting Apache NiFi to talk to Progress MarkLogic. I’d like to share a couple little “gotchas” that we’ve run into before. I’m using ExecuteScriptMarkLogic to illustrate the point, but it applies to any processor where we use JavaScript code in the […]

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Apache NiFi and Progress MarkLogic

  • 10 April, 2024
  • By Dave Cassel

For years, I’ve used Apache NiFi as a data orchestration tool. Based on NiFi’s built-in scheduler, we pull data from upstream sources, send it to Progress MarkLogic, and trigger MarkLogic to take certain actions on that data. We also use NiFi to ask MarkLogic for information that is ready to process and take action based […]

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Updating Document Quality

  • 28 June, 2023
  • By Dave Cassel

A little-used Progress MarkLogic feature (from what I’ve seen) is the ability to change a document’s quality. Lowering this value will make it drop in search results, while increasing it will make it more prominent. For one client, we’re allowing subject matter experts to lower the quality of documents that aren’t very helpful. They get […]

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