Spring Quick Reference Guide: A Pocket Handbook for Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and More

© Adam L. Davis 2020

A. L. DavisSpring Quick Reference Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6144-6_6

6. Spring Data

Adam L. Davis¹ 

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Oviedo, FL, USA

 

Spring Data’s mission is to provide a familiar and consistent Spring-based programming model for data access while still retaining the special traits of the underlying data store.

Spring Data has support for every kind of data store, both relational and nonrelational (SQL and NoSQL), from JPA (Hibernate or TopLink) to Apache Cassandra and MongoDB to Redis. In this chapter, we will explore Spring Data JPA, JDBC, and R2DBC and how they support relational databases such as MariaDB, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.

Domain Entities

To get started in any Spring Data project, we need to define the domain classes or ...