MarkLogic's CEO on Healthcare.gov and dueling with Oracle

Gary Bloom is CEO of Silicon Valley-based MarkLogic. Open enrollment on HealthCare.gov, the federal database through which US citizens can sign up health care, begins for the fourth year on November 1. The website's launch was infamously botched in 2013, and the government recovered by moving part of the massive endeavor from Oracle to MarkLogic, which offers a non-relational, document-based (NoSQL) databases. MarkLogic's CEO Gary Bloom says it's not uncommon for his company's customers to come to them with a project originally started on an Oracle database. Still, the drama around health care databases continues: Just a few weeks ago, the state of Oregon announced it was settling its years-long legal battle with Oracle over its health care marketplace.