Author: buildbot
Date: Tue Jul 1 21:21:36 2014
New Revision: 914663
Log:
Staging update by buildbot for gora
Modified:
websites/staging/gora/trunk/content/ (props changed)
websites/staging/gora/trunk/content/about.html
Propchange: websites/staging/gora/trunk/content/
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@@ -179,8 +179,22 @@ for big data. The roadmap of Gora can be
<a
href="http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/mapred_tutorial.html";>MapReduce</a>
(<a href="http://hadoop.apache.org";>Apache Hadoop™</a>)
support for data in the data store.</li>
</ul>
+<h2 id="who-is-gora-for">Who is Gora For?</h2>
+<p>Gora is a framework primarily aimed towards</p>
+<ul>
+<li><b>Hands on Developers</b> required to deal with data volumes which
justify Big Data storage solutions classified under
+ the NoSQL umbrella.</li>
+<li>Developers who seek a <b>Java friendly (REST-style) API</a> for mapping
Java objects to and from
+ NoSQL technologies.</li>
+<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><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>ORM stands for Object Relation Mapping. It is a technology which abstacts
the persistency layer
+<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>
<ul>
