Relational databases have long been considered the one true way to persist enterprise data. But today, NoSQL databases are emerging as a viable alternative for many applications. They can simplify the persistence of complex data models and offer significantly better scalability, and performance. But using NoSQL databases is very different …
Grails 2.0 has just been released. This new version brings a greatly enhanced user experience. Everything from the command line, to the test reports, to the UIs that Grails generates for you have been rethought and reinvented.
This initial video explains the the mismatch between object and relational models and what Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) is. ORM is the concept that Hibernate uses to facilitate the storage and retrieval of Java domain objects in relational databases.
The needs of many enterprises have stretched traditional RDBMS based solutions to the breaking point and as a result, a plethora of new non-relational storage options have appeared: key-value stores, column storages, document and graph databases.
If you are a Java EE 6 user, your choices for tools have never been better. Maybe you have been using a specific tool forever (NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ), and do not have the time of the energy to learn a new one?
This video presents what the combination of MongoDB and Cloud Foundry has to offer to Spring developers. A sample application is developed to show how to build and deploy to the cloud. You will also see how to connect to the MongoDB service bound to the application in the cloud. …
