Spring Data

The main goal of the Spring Data project is to provide an easy and consistent Spring-based model to access data and other special features, to manipulate SQL-and NoSQL-based data stores. It also tries to provide an easy way to use data access technologies, map-reduce frameworks, relational and non-relational databases, and cloud-based data services.

Some of the important features are as follows:

• Provides support for integration with custom repository code
• Provides repository and object-mapping abstractions by deriving dynamic queries using repository method names
• Advanced integration support with Spring MVC controllers
• Advanced support for transparent auditing features such as created by, created date, last changed by, and last changed date
• Experimental integration support for cross-store persistence

Spring Data provides integration support for the following data sources:

• JPA
• JDBC
• LDAP
• MongoDB
• Gemfire
• REST
• Redis
• Apache Cassandra
• Apache Solr