MarkLogic Server 4.2 Product 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.

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.
  • Flexible Replication Guide | Flexible Replication Guide (PDF)
    Provides step-by step information on replicating MarkLogic Server content.
  • 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.
  • Copyright and Support | Copyright and Support (PDF)
    Copyright and support information.

XCC API Reference

Admin Interface Help