Tiered Storage

MarkLogic Server allows you to manage your data at different tiers of storage and computation environments, with the top-most tier providing the fastest access to your most critical data and the lowest tier providing the slowest access to your least critical data. Infrastructures like Hadoop and object storage services make it economically feasible to scale storage to accommodate massive amounts of data in the lower tiers. Segregating data among different storage tiers allows you to optimize trade-offs among cost, performance, availability, and flexibility.

Tiered storage is supported by the XQuery, JavaScript, and REST APIs. This section describes the tiered storage operations using the REST API, which supports all of the operations you will want to integrate into your storage-management scripts.