[jira] Commented: (JDO-651) Modify specification to address NoSQL datastores

["Andy Jefferson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Andy Jefferson commented on JDO-651:
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One further possible requirement. With a document-based store (e.g MongoDB), the datastore stores objects in JSON document format. With this (and with XML-based storage also for that matter), you have two options in terms of "embedding" a persistable field.
class Foo
{
    @Embedded
    Bar bar;
}

Option 1 : store the related object embedded as a document in the document of the owner (i.e nested)
Option 2 : map all fields of the related object to "field" names in the document of the owner (like we would do it for RDBMS).

Would be nice to have a meta-data way of defining these two situations distinctly.

> Modify specification to address NoSQL datastores
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JDO-651
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-651
>             Project: JDO
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: api, specification, tck
>    Affects Versions: JDO 3
>            Reporter: Matthew T. Adams
>            Assignee: Matthew T. Adams
>              Labels: jdo, nosql, profile, specification
>             Fix For: JDO 3 maintenance release 1
>
>
> There is increasing interest in NoSQL datastores (Google BigTable, Apache HBase, VMWare Redis, etc), which not only do not support SQL, but also do not necessarily provide support for traditional consistency or queriability features or guarantees, instead offering features like eventual consistency, key-value storage mechanisms, etc.
> This request is to modify the JDO specification (and TCK & RI) so that it relaxes certain portions of the specification, perhaps in the form of profiles similar to JavaEE 6 profiles, to allow datastores that may not support queries in general, do not support the ACID requirements, or that support key-value-based storage mechanisms to be JDO-compliant.  Additions to the specification may also be needed in order to directly address NoSQL-type datastores, in a manner similar to its treatment of relational persistence mechanisms.
> Additionally, this request would serve to better support persistence on micro platforms where consistency, queriability, etc, may not be supported.

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