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JNoSQL
Eclipse JNoSQL is a Java framework that streamlines the integration of Java applications with NoSQL databases. It defines a set of APIs to interact with NoSQL databases and provides a standard implementation for most NoSQL databases. This clearly helps to achieve very low coupling with the underlying NoSQL technologies used.
Communication API: This is a set of APIs that defines communication with NoSQL databases. In traditional SQL/RDBMS world, these can be compared with the JDBC APIs. This API set contains four modules, with each one representing a NoSQL database storage type: Key-Value, Column Family, Document and Graph.
Mapping API: These are the APIs that help developers to map Java objects to NoSQL databases. This layer is annotation driven and uses technologies like CDI and Bean Validations to make it simple for the developer. In traditional SQL/RDBMS world, this layer can be compared to JPA and ORM frameworks.
Key features
- Simple APIs supporting all well-known NoSQL storage types - Column Family, Key-Value Pair, Graph and Document databases.
- Use of Convention Over Configuration
- Support for Asynchronous Queries
- Support for Asynchronous Write operations
- Easy-to-implement API Specification and Test Compatibility Kit \(TCK\) for NoSQL Vendors
- The API's focus is on simplicity and ease of use. Developers should only have to know a minimal set of artifacts to work with JNoSQL. The API is built on Java 8 features like Lambdas and Streams and therefore fits perfectly with the functional features of Java 8+.
Diana
The Eclipse JNoSQL communication API, Diana, Project has a goal do the low-level API, in other words, communicate with the NoSQL databases. This project is going to work as a driver to NOSQL databases. At overall it has four APIs inside, one for each NoSQL kind, beyond it own TCK. A test compatibility kit, the TCK, are a test group that makes sure if an A NoSQL database does support a database, e.g., If A key value database wants to prove its database has Diana support.
So even Diana does not do the abstraction level, supports to make the developer life easier, it makes easier integration with frameworks that do this.
Diana is valuable also alone when a developer what to use just the communication layer, that is going to easier to change to another database of the same type.
Artemis
The Eclilpse JNoSQL Mapping API, Artemis, is the integration and mapping layer, in other words, it takes the communication level, Diana, and it does integration with others technologies such as Bean Validation and also with an entity model. It has a CDI engine; its formula is simple:
Diana plus CDI equals to Artemis.
As Diana have, Artemis also has an API to each database flavor. Using CDI as the engine, each component is configurable, and it has features such as:
- Persist an object through annotation
- Make replaceable any component (reflections, entity conversions, cache, persistence lifecycle and more).
- Observer event a continued existence database lifecycle (each databases kind has an individual event).
- An important point about CDI events is how easy is create and add new functionalities without change the core code. That is easy to use bean validation just listen to an event.