Stardog vs. Marklogic
A connected enterprise means connecting ALL your data
Marklogic is a multi-model database that integrates data of various types. While the platform is good for one-off use cases involving data of different structures, it can't handle data that needs to be constantly refreshed, is externally sourced, or that can't be ingested (often for regulatory reasons). And, in a time where global teams need different views of the same data, Marklogic simply can't accommodate this complexity.
To build a connected enterprise you need to be able to connect all your data and make it accessible and useable across different lines of business. Stardog was purpose-built for this, allowing businesses the ability to unify data based on meaning, regardless of its location or structure.
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“With Stardog, an hours-long triage of outages is a 50ms query now.” – Managing Director, Enterprise Infrastructure, Leading Bank |
Create a highly reusable network of knowledge
Stardog represents data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured sources in graph to create a uniform data layer, enriched with the full context of data from every source. Unlike Marklogic's non-native graph functionality, Stardog helps you answer complex questions from any data stored anywhere.
Our platform extends beyond simple graph-based integration, so you can query across relational databases, NoSQL databases, documents, and even geospatial data—seamlessly.
Virtualization for performance, cost-savings and scalability
Say goodbye to long, costly data preparation and migration processes. Stardog was the first to market with powerful graph-based virtualization, giving you unprecedented flexibility to investigate deep connections across data sources without copying that data into Stardog. This ensures you always access up-to-date data, unlike in Marklogic.
Choose to materialize or virtualize based on what’s best for your data, performance, and cost requirements and access any data, whether on-prem or in the cloud.
Inference Engine to power collaboration between stakeholders
Unlike Marklogic that has no inference capabilities, Stardog’s Inference Engine associates related data stored in disparate sources, and uses this rich web of relationships to discover new relationships. The resulting network of knowledge becomes greatly more valuable across business units.
The Inference Engine also supports multi-tenancy schemas, the ability to represent multiple definitions for the same data, making collaboration between teams or expressing situational or theoretical truth easier than ever.
Data quality management for quicker troubleshooting
Stardog offers tools to validate and enforce data integrity (namely SHACL), which Marklogic does not support. Constraints find inconsistencies across data silos, flag conflicting data, or prevent the Knowledge Graph from accessing bad data.
Constraints also support measuring the quality of the data, performing verification after an integration, and assisting in planning future improvement measures.The functionality is also highly explainable — taking you right to the rule that makes the data false for troubleshooting.
Never train models on incomplete, out-of-date, or inaccurate data again. Stardog ships with built-in predictive analytics and similarity search for quicker model development and iteration.
Use similarity search to recommend articles based on user inputs, fill in gaps in data lineage, or find new chemical compounds similar to a known compound. Use our machine learning to predict the value of a relationship or combine with Pathfinder to solve tricky operational issues like determining an alternate supply route on the fly.
Assign permissions by user profile, restrict access to datasets with Named Graphs, and authenticate Stardog users for secure access.
Scale to 50 billion data points on a single node; we’re also Kubernetes compatible and ACID-compliant.
Get access to our core engineers for support and lean on your dedicated Customer Success rep to take advantage of the newest features.
Deploy Stardog on-premise or in the cloud. Elect for a Managed Service to guarantee uptime and receive end-to-end support.
Build a network of enterprise data based on meaning to make better decisions. Turn your data into a force multiplier to accelerate your enterprise.
See for yourself how you can unify data from infinite sources with Stardog's Connectors to drive better insights across your organization.
Stardog Cloud
Enterprises are struggling with the consequences of flawed decision-making caused by irrelevant, incomplete, and inconsistent data. The move to multicloud and hybrid cloud environments further complicates this situation. Stardog Cloud offers a new way forward.
Let's chat about we can support your data management strategy.
And, if you are already a Marklogic customer, we'd be happy to discuss how Stardog can work with the platform and enhance its value in tangent with your other data tools with zero rip-and-replace.