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Just a quick plug for the Mark Logic User Conference 2009, coming up on 12-14 May. I’m presenting a half-day architecture session before the conference, plus conference sessions on high availability and scalability. As usual there will be customer presentations and opportunities to hear about new product features directly from our engineers.

The current issue of JDAM is a Mark Logic showcase, with two articles by our customers plus my article on content server scalability.

Abstract: The growing size and complexity of content makes it increasingly difficult for content management systems and content-based applications to keep up. Fast access to terabytes (TB) of eXtensible Markup Language is increasingly important to many companies and organizations. Filesystems and relational database management systems are adequate for gigabytes of rich content, but TBs demand a repository that was built for content.

At last week’s 2007 Mark Logic User Conference, I talked about bulk reprocessing of XML content. The problem is simple: you have 100 GB to 100 TB of XML, and you need to make a small change to each and every document. The problem is simple, but the solution is not.

As part of the talk, I demonstrated and released a tool for this, called Corb (or “CoRB”, if you prefer). Hopefully this will save someone else from re-inventing the wheel.

Oh, and I talked about scalability, too. How many TB of XML would you like?