MarkLogic 5 Product Documentation

Getting Started Guides

Developer's Guides

  • Application Developer's Guide | (PDF)
    Provides procedures, methodologies, and conceptual information about general application development tasks in MarkLogic Server.
  • Search Developer's Guide | (PDF)
    Provides procedures, methodologies, and conceptual information about developing search-related applications in MarkLogic Server. Includes information about the Search API and the built-in search features of MarkLogic Server.
  • Application Builder Developer's Guide | (PDF)
    Provides step-by step information on using the Application Builder to build a search application, and also provides information on customizing applications built with the Application Builder.
  • Information Studio Developer's Guide | (PDF)
    Provides step-by step information on using the Information Studio to load content into MarkLogic Server.
  • XCC Developer's Guide | (PDF)
    Contains an overview of the what you can do with the XCC libraries, examples of how to use XCC, and an overview of the sample applications included with XCC.
  • MarkLogic Connector for Hadoop Developer's Guide | (PDF)
    How to create Apache Hadoop MapReduce jobs that use MarkLogic Server as an input data source or an output destination. This book includes an overview of the sample applications.

Administrator's Guides

Other Reference Guides

  • XQuery and XSLT Reference Guide | (PDF)
    A condensed overview of the XQuery language, including a description of the three XQuery dialects supported in MarkLogic Server. Also includes XSLT reference material, including details and extensions to the language. This book does includes some syntax information, although it is primarily intended as in introduction and quick-reference to the languages, not as a comprehensive reference.
  • Content Processing Framework Guide | (PDF)
    Provides an introduction to the Content Processing Framework and procedures for installing the default content processing framework.
  • Monitoring MarkLogic Guide | (PDF)
    Provides procedures for setting up and using monitoring applications on MarkLogic Server.
  • Query Performance and Tuning Guide | (PDF)
    Provides performance-related information that is useful to application developers and administrators.
  • Scalability, Availability, and Failover Guide | (PDF)
    Provides information on large-scale system architecture, clustering, and details on setting up both local-disk failover and shared-disk failover.
  • Understanding and Using Security Guide | (PDF)
    Provides information on the role-based security model in MarkLogic Server.
  • MarkLogic Server for Amazon EC2 Guide | (PDF)
    Provides information on using an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of MarkLogic Server on Amazon EC2.
  • Query Console User Guide | (PDF)
    A procedural guide that describes how to use the Query Console.

XCC API Reference

Hadoop Connector API Reference

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Tutorials & Videos

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Training Courses

Administering MarkLogic Server

5/21 – 5/23
Online Class – Central Time,

Developing MarkLogic Applications

6/5 – 6/8
Online Class – Central Time,

Developing MarkLogic Applications

6/12 – 6/15
London, United Kingdom

Administering MarkLogic Server

6/19 – 6/21
Online Class – Singapore Time,

Administering MarkLogic Server

6/26 – 6/28
Mclean, Virginia

Developing MarkLogic Applications

7/10 – 7/13
Online Class – Central Time,

Administering MarkLogic Server

7/17 – 7/19
Online Class – London Time,

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DocBook, The Definite Guide

by Norman Walsh
Official documentation for the popular semantic markup language for technical documentation.

Querying XML

by Jim Melton and Stephen Buxton
MarkLogic Executive Provides Expert Advice on Querying XML in this Best-Selling Book.

Java Servlet Programming

by Jason Hunter
The best book on Java servlets on the planet.

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