[arosenbaum]

Not really a slam at all. Customers choose MarkLogic to replace Oracle and DB2 specifically because it "handles data differently".

"Schemaless" aka "Schema on read" is the biggest difference between Only "SQL" and "Not Only SQL" systems. Scale-out on commodity hw vs. scale-up on shared storage is another. Customers often choose MarkLogic instead of other NoSQL systems because of it's ACID capabilities, ability to run multi-statement transactions between multiple databases (including Oracle and MarkLogic in the same transaction) and a multitude of enterprise capabilities from government grade security to point-in-time restore.

Read more: http://developer.marklogic.com/pubs/architecture/inside-mark...

[realmandan]

Totally, not a slam at all. As long as you don't think a company name and "perform below expectations" sitting next to each other in a NYT long-form piece is a BAD thing...

[arosenbaum]

I'll repeat what our CEO said in the NYTimes article "He said MarkLogic is performing up to standard, but “the network and the storage systems are not properly sized and not properly run.”

Put any database on top of the resources that were provided and I think performance "below expectations" would have been likely.