Spring framework + NoSQL

Question

Hey folks,

It's already 18 hours that i'm playing with Spring framework. It's beautiful, really amazing. As far as i can see spring knows how to work rdbms databases .

Can anyone tell me about experience of spring + NoSQL ( cassandra , couchdb\mongodb, redis or even HBase ) ?

thanks

Answer 1

I'm assuming you mean similar to JDBCTemplate. If so, there's no template based functionality that supports the NoSQL crowd as a whole. You'd either need to build your own on top of a client for that NoSQL client. Cassandra, for example has a number of clients written by various people:

http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ClientOptions

You might get lucky with specific NoSQL databases, it appears someone is working on a Cassandra4Spring framework:

http://code.google.com/p/workingonit/wiki/Cassandra4Spring

Answer 2

For Cassandra you can use Hector. It has a usable spring integration (implemented by me). In the test resources there is an example xml - you just map 3 beans, and you have your HectorTemplate injecected and ready to work with.

For everything else - you said spring is beautiful, and it indeed is, because you can use almost any API with it, without the API specifically adhering to or depending on spring.