Looks like a great release! I noticed that there are also some less pronounced, but equally cool, updates which I've mentioned on my blog ( http://maxdewpoint.blogspot.com/2012/09/marklogic-60-released.html ). Is there a reason some of these updates aren't mentioned or perhaps I'm just missing where the updates were announced?
-Ryan Dew On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Eric Bloch <[email protected]>wrote: > See http://developer.marklogic.com/blog/we-got-six > * > * > *We Got Six* > > Today, we at MarkLogic are very proud to release MarkLogic > 6<http://developer.marklogic.com/products/marklogic-server/6.0>. > It's more powerful, more accessible, and trusted as ever. Below are some > highlights > > *New APIs!* > > We've created entire new REST<http://developer.marklogic.com/try/rest/index> > and Java <http://developer.marklogic.com/try/java/index> APIs to make > the awesome that is MarkLogic available to vast new communities of software > developers. These APIs enable developers familiar with Java or REST APIs > to get going quickly, yet they are also full-featured. Their rich > functionality enables developers to build complete database and search > applications. > > Beyond the product documentation (guides and references) as well as new > tutorials <http://developer.marklogic.com/learn> we've provided to get > folks going, there is also a sample application built entirely via the > MarkLogic Java API here <http://developer.marklogic.com/code/top-songs>. > > > *Now with JSON* > * > * > > Along with these new APIs, you'll also find support for > JSON<http://json.org/>. > The *"data format of the web"* is now easily stored, searched, queried, > transformed, and analyzed directly in MarkLogic. > > > *In-Database* *Analytic Functions and** MapReduce * > * > * > > Performance is a constant focus here and this feature is all about that. > MarkLogic 6 comes with a large set of analytic functions built on top of > our internal mechanism for distributed processing (aka > MapReduce<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce>) > to provide high-performance calculations. Beyond these tools, for > developers who need to push the envelope, we are also exposing the APIs as > well as plugin interfaces to the MapReduce mechanism inside MarkLogic. > Seriously. You can provide your own C/C++ functions for computing custom > analytics that MarkLogic will run "close to your data". > > > *BI Tools Inteface* > * > * > > You can hook up IBM Cognos<http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/cognos/> > or Tableau <http://www.tableausoftware.com/> to MarkLogic via a live > connection for real-time reporting and analytic investigations. That in > itself is cool. But the mechanism we're providing for this is... an ODBC > driver. For now, the driver is only supported for use with Cognos and > Tableau, but you can imagine what we're thinking here with this awesome > first step. Yep, a SQL interface to a NoSQL database. Interesting. > > * > * > *UI Widgets* > > > The MarkLogic Visualization > Widgets<http://developer.marklogic.com/products/visualization-widgets> are > a set of open-source-licensed HTML5 widgets for charts, graphs and maps > that provide out-of-the box user interface connectivity to MarkLogic. We > provide the widgets, of course, but we've also added them into Application > Builder, so that you can, with a few quick keystrokes and clicks, build an > advanced search application with these visualization tools. > > > *Content Pump* > * > * > > With this new command-line tool<http://developer.marklogic.com/products/mlcp>, > it's a snap to load content from an OS filesystem or Hadoops > HDFS<http://hadoop.apache.org/index.html> to > MarkLogic. You can also just as easily export from MarkLogic to a > filesystem or HDFS. The tool also introduces a new platform-independent > MarkLogic database archive format. > > *Documentation* > > What about the docs <http://docs.marklogic.com/>? Every developer knows > how important good documenation is. > > Since I took over the helm of http://developer.marklogic.com in 2010, > there are two things I've wanted to improve in this area. One is to make it > easier for folks to contribute - and the other is to improve site search. > Both of these are still works in progress, but as we launch MarkLogic 6, > we've made real advances in these areas. In particular, we've integrated > documentation browsing and search directly into the MarkLogic application > that runs our site, enabling Disqus <http://www.disqus.com/> comments > directly in our reference pages. We now have excellent URLs for our docs, > a reasonable HTML representation of our content, and integrated search and > faceting. The feature list for the integrated docs.marklogic.com site > includes: > > > - Product documentation is integrated seamlessly in the developer > site. This includes MarkLogic 6 docs (as well as older versions for > customers who've not yet upgraded) > - All the content is *searchable via MarkLogic search* (including search > suggestions, facets and snippeted results) > - We have an *interactive, filtering table-of-contents *for our > docs. > - The docs have *"Smart" URLs* for references, guides, and > chapters. For example, the URL for a function is based on name of > function > (e.g. http://docs.marklogic.com/fn:doc is page for function named > 'fn:doc') > - All reference pages are* comment enabled for user interaction*. > Each reference page has a (moderated) Disqus comment area at the bottom > - > comments are stored at Disqus as well as in MarkLogic! > - We continue to offer printable versions and PDFs as well the > online interactive version. > - And, of course, all of this is running on MarkLogic. (transform, > data, search) > > > There are a bunch of other super cool features including new Path indexes, > additions to the XQuery search API, and more (see the full list of new > features <http://docs.marklogic.com/6.0/guide/relnotes/chap1#chapter>). > Also, if you're an old pro, please check out the release > notes<http://docs.marklogic.com/guide/relnotes/chap4#chapter> for > changes - there are a couple incompatibilities 6 has with previous releases. > > We're very happy to release all of this goodness to you. We got > six<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCSRI4rzQwI> and > we hope you enjoy it. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > >
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