Author: buildbot
Date: Tue Jul 1 21:34:28 2014
New Revision: 914671
Log:
Staging update by buildbot for gora
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websites/staging/gora/trunk/content/ (props changed)
websites/staging/gora/trunk/content/about.html
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<div class="container" id="Gora_About Apache Gora&trade;">
<h2 id="why-gora">Why Gora?</h2>
-<p>Although there are various excellent ORM frameworks for relational
databases, data modeling in
+<p>Although there are various excellent ORM frameworks such as JPA, Apache
OpenJPA, Hibernate, etc for relational databases, data modeling in
NoSQL data stores differ profoundly from their relational cousins. Moreover,
data-model agnostic
frameworks such as JDO are not sufficient for use cases, where one needs to
use the full power
-of the data models in column stores. Gora fills this gap by giving the user an
easy-to-use in-memory
+of the data models in column stores (for example). Gora fills this gap by
giving the user an easy-to-use in-memory
data model and persistence for big data framework with data store specific
mappings and built
in <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org";>Apache Hadoop™</a> support.</p>
<p>The overall goal for Gora is to become the standard data representation and
persistence framework
@@ -189,14 +189,18 @@ for big data. The roadmap of Gora can be
<li><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. </li>
-<li>Developers interested in <b>technology agnostic storage methods</a> for
addressing data storage tasks.</li>
+<li>Developers interested in <b>technology agnostic storage methods</b> for
addressing data storage tasks.</li>
<li><b>Decision Makers</b> looking to implement a flexible storage framework
under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0";>most liberal
open source license available</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="background">Background</h2>
<p><b>ORM</b> stands for <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping";>Object Relation
Mapping</a>. 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:</p>
+effort to save/load the data to and from the database. </p>
+<p>Gora extends this concept to introduce <b>Object-to-Datastore Mapping</b>
where the underlying
+technological implementations rely mostly on non-relational data modeling. In
essence
+Gora provides storage abstraction for NoSQL technologies.</p>
+<p>Gora differs from current solutions in that:</p>
<ul>
<li>Gora is specially focussed at NoSQL data stores, but also has limited
support for SQL databases.</li>
<li>The main use case for Gora is to access/analyze big data using <a
href="http://hadoop.apache.org";>Apache Hadoop™</a>.</li>
