Spring always provided sophisticated support for various Java data access technologies. The lately invented Spring Data project now takes the next step and introduces a consistent programming model for non-relational data stores and helps implementing data access layers in a consistent and easy-to grasp fashion – for both the NoSQL stores as well as more traditional APIs like JPA. The talk introduces the global Spring Data project, foundational concepts and abstractions and dives down into specialties of particular modules using MongoDB and Neo4J as examples.
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