An Introduction to Spring Data

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2012
Presenters: Mark Pollack, Jon Brisbin, Michael Hunger (Neo4j)

The Spring Data project is an umbrella project that provides a familiar and consistent Spring-based programming model for a wide range of data access technologies. Motivated by the rise of new NoSQL databases and Big Data solutions, there is support for Redis, MongoDB, HBase, Neo4j, Gemfire, Hadoop and Splunk. There is also a "refresh" of Spring's traditional support for JDBC and JPA. In this session, we will provide a guided tour of the Spring Data feature set, showing how you can quickly increase your productivity when creating applications that use these new data access technologies. Use cases unique to each technology will be discussed and demonstrated as well as where Spring Data provides some level of portability between different databases.

[robertgloverjr]

Recorded at the 2012 Washington DC SpringOne 2GX conference, it is fast paced and covers a lot of topics at a fairly high level.  All attendees of the 2012 SpringOne 2GX conference were given a voucher for the book "Spring Data". It appears all of the topics and examples used in this video are contained in that book ("Spring Data"). It ends with Spring Data REST, showing off the "REST repository explorer". The middle sections of the video on Redis, MongoDB, Neo4j, and NoSQL  won't be of interest to every viewer.  Overall, it's an important video to see in order to help decide which sub-topics to focus on in more detail.

[BryonLape]

I like where Spring has gone in the past several years, but I am sad that Spring for .Net is dead.