Relational databases have long been considered the one true way to persist enterprise data. But today, NoSQL databases are emerging as a viable alternative for many applications. They can simplify the persistence of complex data models and offer significantly better scalability, and performance. But using NoSQL databases is very different than the ACID/SQL/JDBC/JPA world that we have become accustomed to.

This initial video explains the the mismatch between object and relational models and what Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) is. ORM is the concept that Hibernate uses to facilitate the storage and retrieval of Java domain objects in relational databases.

This video presents what the combination of MongoDB and Cloud Foundry has to offer to Spring developers. A sample applications is developped to show how to build and deploy to the cloud. You will also see how to connect to the MongoDB service bound to the application in the cloud. This provides the ability to import and export data and to run ad-hoc queries from a command line tool.

In the Java world, Not-only-SQL (NoSQL) systems can be applied in a large number of problem domains. In general, it’s safe to say that NoSQL is a contender against traditional RDBMSs if data storage and retrieval needs aren’t transactional.

James Williams presents how to do Java Development with MongoDB.

Slides of the presentation
Video Producer: 10gen

Many enterprises have stretched traditional RDBMS based solutions to the breaking point and a plethora of new non-relational (“NOSQL”) storage options have appeared. This video presents the new Spring Data project which aim is to add support for NOSQL databases. It will give an overview of the different databases currently supported by Spring Data and zoom in on a few specific examples using ‘pure Java’ Spring, Spring Roo and the Neo4j graph database.
Watch this video on the Oredev Conference web site

Whether you need to store non-SQL key/value pairs, SQL data, XML, Java Collections or POJO-like application objects, Berkeley DB is the first data storage library you should think of – it’s a natural for Java application developers.