Day 1 Wrap-Up - Tableau Conference 2014 - theCUBE
Day 1 Wrap Up at Tableau Conference 2014 with John Furrier and Jeff Kelly @theCUBE #Data14 Tableau Software Inc.’s ecosystem partners rave about the value Tableau adds to their products. One such partner, MarkLogic Corp., describes itself as “the only enterprise-level noSQL database out there.” Joe Pasqua, MarkLogic’s VP of Product Development explains that Tableau and MarkLogic work together so well because they both collect data and find new ways to use it. While at the Tableau Data 14 conference, he spoke with Jeff Kelly on theCUBE about how the two companies partner to provide clients with a more comprehensive view of their data. MarkLogic has the “agility and power of noSQL,” but can still accommodate the capabilities and characteristic that enterprises have accumulated and come to rely on “over the past 30 years in the database space,” said Pasqua. They leverage a decade of experience to figure out the edge cases and make their product work. Because MarkLogic began as a company that wanted to provide agility and work with traditional characteristics, those aspects are “built into the system,” Pasqua explained. The MarkLogic technology was built based on that decision, not retrofitted to meet customers needs. Pasqua went on to say that MarkLogic uses “search technology combined with database technology” as its core design pillar. How customers use MarkLogic MarkLogic clients that get the most value out of the technology tend to have one of two goals in mind: 1. Content delivery In the publishing and media industries, MarkLogic helps take diverse content from a vast variety of sources and aggregate it all together. That way, it’s easy for clients to search through the content and construct “new content composed of all these different components.” 2. Heterogeneous data integration Many organizations have huge amounts of data stored in different formats and different systems. MarkLogic is able to bring it all together and let clients manipulate and better understand their data. While these two use cases are distinct, Pasqua pointed out, “the underlying problem is the same.” MarkLogic clients seek a schema-agnostic tool that enables them to bring “lots of systems, lots of diverse data” together in one place to enable a more holistic view.