Goals

• Super-simple to use
  • “Obvious” for Java developers
  • Minimally-invasive (for your entities as well as your services)
  • Support storage of any Java class
  • Automatically handle relationships in a “Java” way
  • Smoothly integrated with common application frameworks
  • Follow the DAO pattern
• Horizontally scalable and high-performance
  • Compatible with NoSQL storage systems
  • Elegant handling of data structure changes
  • On-the-fly data migration
• Enterprise features built-in
  • Data versioning
  • Transaction-capable
• Give the developer choice
  • Choose if you value performance or ACID or something in between
  • Choose from various pluggable storage and indexing components
  • Mix and match components within a single system