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Spring Data
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Spring Data

by Mark Pollack, Oliver Gierke, Thomas Risberg, Jon Brisbin, Michael Hunger
October 2012
Beginner to intermediate
316 pages
8h 53m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Foreword

Rod Johnson

Creator, Spring Framework

We live in interesting times. New business processes are driving new requirements. Familiar assumptions are under threat—among them, that the relational database should be the default choice for persistence. While this is now widely accepted, it is far from clear how to proceed effectively into the new world.

A proliferation of data store choices creates fragmentation. Many newer stores require more developer effort than Java developers are used to regarding data access, pushing into the application things customarily done in a relational database.

This book helps you make sense of this new reality. It provides an excellent overview of today’s storage world in the context of today’s hardware, and explains why NoSQL stores are important in solving modern business problems.

Because of the language’s identification with the often-conservative enterprise market (and perhaps also because of the sophistication of Java object-relational mapping [ORM] solutions), Java developers have traditionally been poorly served in the NoSQL space. Fortunately, this is changing, making this an important and timely book. Spring Data is an important project, with the potential to help developers overcome new challenges.

Many of the values that have made Spring the preferred platform for enterprise Java developers deliver particular benefit in a world of fragmented persistence solutions. Part of the value of Spring is how it brings consistency (without descending ...

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