by Angela Guess
In the slew of recent NoSQL announcements, Neo Technology unveiled Spring Data Neo4j 2.0 last week: “Neo4j is a part of the Spring Data Project, which is designed to make it easier for Spring developers to leverage emerging technologies in the enterprise, including as NoSQL databases and non-relational DBs.” The article notes, “Neo has a history of working in the enterprise space around Java, so with the help of Spring Data, it’s trying to bridge two worlds: Java support with the agile and a scalable NoSQL database.”
The article adds, “The latest release of Neo4j works its way further towards that goal, by adding expanded functionality in the form of for Spring-Data-Commons Mapping Abstraction and Extended Repository support.” Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem stated, “NoSQL’s all over the place, if you talk to any startup. But it hasn’t made a dent in the enterprise world… Spring Data has a huge footprint for open source within the enterprise. And the enterprise hasn’t had easy access to NoSQL, and I think it’s because most NoSQL comes from online services. We have an enterprise background, so we have properties that have real support for transactions and Java. We also have great connectivity for other languages, but we’re Java first.”
photo credit: Neo Technology
