Spring Data makes it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services as well as provide improved support for relational database technologies.
Spring Data is an umbrella open source project which contains many subprojects that are specific to a given database. The projects are developed by working together with many of the companies and developers that are behind these exciting technologies.
Spring Data Projects:
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| Relational Databases |
JPA |
Spring Data JPA - Simplifies the development of creating a JPA-based data access layer |
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JDBC Extensions |
Support for Oracle RAC, Advanced Queuing, and Advanced datatypes. Future support for QueryDSL. |
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| Big Data |
Hadoop |
The Apache Hadoop project is an open-source implementation of frameworks for reliable, scalable, distributed computing and data storage. |
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| Data-Grid |
GemFire |
VMware vFabric GemFire is a distributed data management platform providing dynamic scalability, high performance, and database-like persistence. It blends advanced techniques like replication, partitioning, data-aware routing, and continuous querying. |
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| Key Value Stores |
Redis |
Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. |
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Riak |
Riak is a Dynamo-inspired key/value store with a distributed database network platform that makes storing and retrieving data simple, safe and low-cost. |
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| Document Stores |
MongoDB |
MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database. |
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CouchDB (planned) |
Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. |
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| Graph Databases |
Neo4j |
Neo4j is a graph database, a fully transactional database that stores data structured as graphs. |
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| Column Stores |
HBase (planned) |
Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google' Bigtable |
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Cassandra (planned) |
The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. |
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| Blob-Stores |
Blob |
Provides access to blob stores such as Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3) as well as from other vendors such as Rackspace and Azure. |
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| Common Infrastructure |
Commons |
Provides shared infrastructure for use across various data access projects. General support for cross-database persistence is located here |
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Grails Mapping |
Provides a database unified object mapping framework that is portable across different databases for Grails. |
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Participation
Please reach out on the forums or JIRA with specific questions,requests, and expressing interest to participate in development on github at http://github.com/SpringSource.
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