The Open Content Architecture (OCA) is an optimal approach to managing and leveraging unstructured and semi-structured corporate information. OCA describes a model of how systems that store, process, enrich, and deliver content should interoperate. The Open Content Architecture model centers on a standards-based persistent content store (or “repository”) with an extensible architecture. The content store and best-of-breed solutions for processing, enriching and delivering content may be quickly assembled by an IT group or systems integrator into a full-featured content application.

MarkLogic Server is optimized to function as the content store for the Open Content Architecture. It is fully transactional, runs in a distributed environment and scales to terabytes of data. In addition, it offers full programmability and content access in XQuery, the query language for XML. MarkLogic Server is built specifically for content. It is schema independent; any loaded document can be immediately and efficiently queried without normalization. Content can be loaded in any format, and transformations such as conversion and enrichment can be performed at any time. Finally, MarkLogic Server’s open-standards interfaces allows for easy integration with a wide range of products for content processing.