Author: lewismc
Date: Tue Jul 1 21:21:28 2014
New Revision: 1607190
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1607190
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@@ -25,9 +25,23 @@ for big data. The roadmap of Gora can be
[MapReduce](http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/mapred_tutorial.html)
([Apache Hadoop™](http://hadoop.apache.org))
support for data in the data store.
+##Who is Gora For?
+
+Gora is a framework primarily aimed towards
+
+* <b>Hands on Developers</b> required to deal with data volumes which justify
Big Data storage solutions classified under
+ the NoSQL umbrella.
+* Developers who seek a <b>Java friendly (REST-style) API</a> for mapping Java
objects to and from
+ NoSQL technologies.
+* <b>Development and/or Testing Engineers</b> looking to quickly set up and
deploy applications on top of
+ Big Data storage mediums. This includes testing how applications are suited
to underlying data stores
+ as data stores are easily interchanged.
+* Developers interested in <b>technology agnostic storage methods</a> for
addressing data storage tasks.
+* <b>Decision Makers</b> looking to implement a flexible storage framework
under the [most liberal
+ open source license available](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
##Background
-ORM stands for Object Relation Mapping. It is a technology which abstacts the
persistency layer
+<b>ORM</b> stands for [Object Relation
Mapping](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping). It is a
technology which abstacts the persistency layer
(mostly Relational Databases) so that plain domain level objects can be used,
without the cumbersome
effort to save/load the data to and from the database. Gora differs from
current solutions in that:
