Data analytics products firm MarkLogic Corporation, has announced the new free MarkLogic Academic License for students and educators. With this, students and faculty can download a free, enterprise version of MarkLogic 5 server for academic projects. By learning how to leverage technology for Big Data, it is expected that students will have the skills necessary to unlock additional job opportunities after graduating.
The MarkLogic Academic License is designed for Big Data research needs and has no data storage restrictions. It can be installed on clusters with hundreds of machines and petabytes of data. The new licence follows closely behind the release of MarkLogic Express, a licence that allows developers to download a free version of MarkLogic and build production applications. With MarkLogic Express, a developer can take a MarkLogic implementation that leverages a 2 CPU node and up to 40 GB of data live.
The MarkLogic Academic License is currently available at the MarkLogic Community website. To be eligible for the MarkLogic Academic License, a user must be a faculty or student member at a university.
