[2] Founded in 2001 by Christopher Lindblad and Paul Pedersen, MarkLogic Corporation is a privately held company with over 500 employees[3] that was acquired by Vector Capital in October 2020.

[4] MarkLogic was originally named Cerisent when it was founded in 2001[5] by Christopher Lindblad, who was the Chief Architect of the Ultraseek search engine at Infoseek, as well as Paul Pedersen, a professor of computer science at Cornell University and UCLA, and Frank R. Caufield, Founder of Darwin Ventures,[6] to address shortcomings with existing search and data products.

[15] The MarkLogic product is considered a multi-model NoSQL database for its ability to store, manage, search JSON and XML documents and semantic data (RDF triples).

[17] Licenses are available from MarkLogic or directly from cloud marketplaces such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

[citation needed] MarkLogic maintains ACID consistency for transactions and has a Common Criteria certification security model, high availability, and disaster recovery.