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MicroNoSql

The aim of this is to provide a simple NoSql data source which can persist Java objects. It is intended for use in-process in lightweight applications where filesystem will be used to store the data.

For the purposes of development and ease of unit testing, it comes with an in-memory version of the storage. This can be used instead of persistence to filesystem in real-world applications where a NoSql-like database is required to share information between threads.

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Motivations

• Run on small scale hardware
• Avoid any query language - it's all core Java
• Lightweight annotation model - very little to declare other than POJOs
• Optimise for storing/retrieving individual items by key - the most common pattern
• Store to disk in such a way that front end could be written without server-side processing

Static Content Model Explained

• If the persistent data is all accessible as static content then the front end could access it without server-side services
• This allows for very low-overhead applications to be built, with an Apache or Nginx front end serving the data as content
• The data that's served could even be replicated from a different machine running the editor engine as a Java application