MarkLogic 6 Product Documentation

  • MarkLogic XQuery and XSLT Function Reference
    API documentation for the MarkLogic built-in and module extensions to the XQuery and XSLT standard functions. It also contains API reference information for the W3C standard functions implemented in MarkLogic Server.
  • REST API Reference
    This API reference documents the REST API for creating client applications without a need to write or understand XQuery as well as the REST resources available on port 8002 for monitoring, managing, and packaging.
  • ZIP File of All MarkLogic Product Documentation
    A zip file containing the latest MarkLogic 6 documentation.

Getting Started Guides

Developer's Guides

  • Application Developer's Guide | Application Developer's Guide (PDF)
    Provides procedures, methodologies, and conceptual information about general application development tasks in MarkLogic Server.
  • Search Developer's Guide | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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.
  • Java Application Developer's Guide | Java Application Developer's Guide (PDF)
    Provides procedures, methodologies, and conceptual information about developing MarkLogic Server applications using the Java API.
  • REST Application Developer's Guide | REST Application Developer's Guide (PDF)
    Provides information on administration of and application development using the MarkLogic REST API.

Administrator's Guides

  • Administrator's Guide | Administrator's Guide (PDF)
    Provides procedures for administrative tasks such as creating servers, creating databases, backing up databases, creating users, setting up your security policy, and so on.
  • Scripting Administrative Tasks Guide | Scripting Administrative Tasks Guide (PDF)
    Provides information on writing code to script various administrative tasks such as creating and modifying databases, App Servers, and so on.
  • Database Replication Guide | Database Replication Guide (PDF)
    Provides a thorough explanation of how to configure and use MarkLogic database replication.
  • Flexible Replication Guide | Flexible Replication Guide (PDF)
    Provides step-by step information on replicating MarkLogic Server content.
  • Monitoring MarkLogic Guide | Monitoring MarkLogic Guide (PDF)
    Provides procedures for setting up and using monitoring applications on MarkLogic Server.
  • Connector For SharePoint® Administrator's Guide | Connector For SharePoint® Administrator's Guide (PDF)
    The documentation for the MarkLogic Connector for SharePoint®, which allows you to mirror documents from a Microsoft SharePoint repository in MarkLogic Server.

Other Reference Guides

  • XQuery and XSLT Reference Guide | 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 an introduction and quick-reference to the languages, not as a comprehensive reference.
  • Content Processing Framework Guide | Content Processing Framework Guide (PDF)
    Provides an introduction to the Content Processing Framework and procedures for installing the default content processing framework.
  • Query Performance and Tuning Guide | Query Performance and Tuning Guide (PDF)
    Provides performance-related information that is useful to application developers and administrators.
  • Scalability, Availability, and Failover Guide | 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 | Understanding and Using Security Guide (PDF)
    Provides information on the role-based security model in MarkLogic Server.
  • Query Console User Guide | Query Console User Guide (PDF)
    A procedural guide that describes how to use the Query Console.
  • Loading Content Into MarkLogic Server | Loading Content Into MarkLogic Server (PDF)
    Provides procedures, methodologies, and conceptual information about loading content into MarkLogic Server. Includes an overview of ingestion techniques available using XQuery, Java, REST, .NET, and the MarkLogic Content Pump (mlcp).
  • SQL Data Modeling Guide | SQL Data Modeling Guide (PDF)
    Provides information on how to use MarkLogic's SQL interface, including the creation of relational schemas and views.
  • Copyright and Support | Copyright and Support (PDF)
    Copyright and support information.

XCC API Reference

Hadoop Connector API Reference

Java API Reference

C++ UDF API Reference

Admin Interface Help