[xquery-talk] my answer to my "MarkLogic's support for JSON" question

[daniela florescu]

Recent linkedin discussion.

Not sure why Andrei thought that this concerns me :-)))

It doesn’t. I really don’t care.

No matter how many bizzilions/gazzilions of $$$ MarkLogic is evaluated to, they still have ZERO innovation,
 their technology is mediocre, and they have no long term vision.

Do I hear someone saying: "here comes Oracle again” !?:-)
(without Larry Ellison though..)

Best regards
Dana


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 <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=name&authToken=IP5T&trk=hp-feed-commenter-photo>16hDaniela Florescu <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=name&authToken=IP5T&trk=hp-feed-commenter-name>And why is this for me, Andrei !?��Delete
 <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=&authToken=&trk=>nowDaniela Florescu <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=&authToken=&trk=>MarkLogic has a mediocre implementation of a W3C standard which is NOT designed by them but by the W3C: XQuery. There is no single technical innovation that I can see from MarkLogic. They've been good at hiring expensive sales people who play good golf and fool lots of customers that the advantages they get are coming from MarkLogic itself ,... vs the underlying technology (XQuery) -- which is the real truth.
 <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=&authToken=&trk=>nowDaniela Florescu <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=910384&authType=&authToken=&trk=> The sad problem is: customers are technically uneducated and willing to listen to all kinds of sales/snake oil stories. Or maybe there are some other reasons why customers are willing to pay a fortune for something they can get for free.... but then, other then stupidity, the reason escapes me. But who am I to judge if someone REALLY wants to waste 300K per CPU for something they can get fore free... !? If there are government customers, and this is MY taxes money, well.... I MIGHT have a problem with that, naturally.
> On May 11, 2015, at 5:56 PM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com> wrote:
> 
> After a little bit of Googling, it seems that the answer to my question is much sillier then I originally thought.
> 
> MarkLogic queries/processes JSON (potentially TB or more of JSON data)… through….well... Javascript.
> 
> Well, as a “data scientist” (hey, everyone else is one, why not me :-), I am speechless.
> 
> I knew that companies with good marketing and expensive sales who play golf can sell all kinds of BS to their customers.
> 
> But still, that’s talking your database customers for total idiots.
> 
> ===============================
> 
> Dear MarkLogic people, dear Gary Bloom (CEO of MarkLogic), did I understand correctly that Javascript is your answer  !!!????
> 
> ===============================
> 
> If I didn’t get it wrong, and that’s what you currently do, you obviously NEED to do something else.
> 
> 
> And I can see only three possible choices for you:
> 
> 1. You use XQuery 3.1. as it is designed by an esteemed and very nice W3C committee.
> Seems like a bad choice, as the JSON-only people will hate it — see the previous discussion, but not as bad as Javascript.
> 
> 2. You “make up” your own JSON query language.  
> Good luck with that. Sounds an even worse choice then the previous one.
> 
> 3. You use JSONiq. 
> That you would be smart and without any problems (JSONiq is an open specification, so by all means, please do), but in this case, 
> please be intellectually honest and admit it publicly.
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards, (and oh, apologizes in advance to the MarkLogic's lawyers who must pull their hairs out 
> trying to figure out how to answer my emails … sorry !)
> 
> 
> Dana
> 
> 
> P.S. MarkLogic, when you take yourself so seriously as to “We are the leaders in the NoSQL  world..”, blah, blah, please remember the saying
> “with great authority come great responsibility”. At least the responsibility to be intelligent in technical choices.

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