Re: [Exist-open] Mark Logic

[Robert K. <ro...@ko...>]

On Sep 12, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Hugh Cayless wrote:

> At the risk of starting a flame war...
>
> We're having a visit from a Mark Logic salesperson and I asked about
> how ML compares to eXist (which we're already using).  The response I
> got wasn't very enlightening other than that it has 100% support for
> XQuery and that several of their customers started with eXist and then
> switched when they moved to production (I don't want to call this FUD,
> because it's probably true, and I don't have any context re when these
> decisions might have been made).  We've been running eXist in
> production for a year, so I don't really buy it.  I'm sure there are
> differences in scaleability, etc. and I was wondering if anyone on the
> list has experience with ML and is able to talk about how the two line
> up.

When ML was pitched in a meeting I attended, the recommended hardware  
was 5 64bit machines maxed out with RAM. I wondered how eXist would  
run on hardware like that. (I also thought, sheesh, why not just use  
the filesystem and load it in memory if you have that kind of RAM and  
horsepower.)

-Rob




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