Spring Data MongoDB vs. native MongoDB - spring

I'm new to MongoDB and I need food for thought.
My project is a ddd-/clean architecture-like project, so i want my domain framework free.
Now I have repositories in my domain with some methods like loadAggregate(...) saveAggregate(...) etc.
And additionally there are query repositories with other data structure to read the data.
Now I need to implement that repositories and I want to use MongoDB.
But I don't know, what is the best strategy.
My Rest-Framework is Spring, so I can use String Data MongoDB. But how can I connect my simple repositories with the spring repositories?
Or I can use MongoDB natively or with KMongo...
Which choice is the best solution to start with?
I hope, my trouble became clear.
Big thx!

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just want to know what is the best way to maintain all queries at one place so any query changes come in the future, I shouldn't build the app rather just need to modify the query.
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I want to access a Neo4j DB with Java and wanted to know what the preferred way to do this is. I just want to write a quite simple data structure to the DB.
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Hibernate OGM
Spring Data
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I looked into accessing Neo4J with JDBC and Hibernate OGM. It seems that its not worth it to use for me. JDBC gives me some trouble. So should i go with the REST way or try to fix my JDBC problems?
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Then there is neo4j-ogm (different from Hibernate OGM) - this is an object graph mapping library, similar to hibernate in ORM world. This has minimal external dependencies and is very easy to use - ideal for cases where you want to map couple of objects into graph.
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Currently We have an enterprise application that works with spring and JPA.
Today we are planning our next generation server.
We are debating whether to use spring-data in our project? It seems to increase productivity and development times.
Are there any alternatives to spring-data to consider? Why not using spring and JPA alone?
What do you suggest?
Bear in mind we are starting to develop from scratch so no constraints are available other than:
we use mysql and mongoDB
we code in java
we will develop client side code in GWT.
Currently we have a layered architecture.
We have a Service layer and a manager layer, which takes care for persisting and business logic. Whoever built that didn't see a good reason to insert the third DAO layer.
There are some technical benefits of Spring Data over Spring + JPA, which in a pure SQL environment, I think give Spring Data an advantage:
Spring Data uses the same CrudRepository interface for all implementations, so you'll have less effort to switch between JPA to MongoDB
Spring Data saves you writing the same methods again and again. You just add the method to the interface and it'll generate it for you (e.g. UserRepository.findByUsername())
You can save boilerplate on REST implementations for JPA, MongoDB and others (see http://projects.spring.io/spring-data-rest/)
If you wanted to experiment with other persistence or indexing services, then there are Spring Data implementations for both mature and newer technologies such as for Neo4j, Hadoop, Solr, ElasticSearch, fuzzydb.
Given that you use MySQL and MongoDB, I think Spring Data is a strong candidate, as it allows developers to code to a single data access API (Spring Data) instead of two (JPA and the MongoDB Java Client).
Regarding the existing architecture, it sounds as though your manager layer is implementing either a Rich Domain pattern, or Active Record.
Spring Data is in my view very well suited to Rich Domain when combined with injection of services using Spring's #Configurable.
Lastly, I'd say that Spring Data also gives a significant advantage when needing to implement services for things like Spring Security and Spring Social, which use MongoDB or others instead of SQL.
We did this in the fuzzydb sample webapp that can be found here. (Disclaimer: I'm the currently sole recent committer on fuzzydb, and haven't touched it for a number of years, but we did have a live service, www.fridgemountain.com, based on that code, but neglected to promote it)

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I'm looking for resources showing how to integrate MongoDB with Hibernate (preferably from within spring) so that I can switch between a RDBMS and a NoSql alternative: does anyone have experience doing this?
You can't easily do this. The point of Hibernate is to map Java Objects to a relational database. Although Hibernate abstracts a lot of details away you still need to understand how relational databases work with things such as foreign and primary keys, and the performance implications of queries you run. MongoDB requires an entire different way of designing your database focusing on objects instead of columns and tables. while you may be able to create a Hibernate dialect for MongoDB creating a design that would work on both a relational database and a NoSql database will give you a design that works poorly on both.
What about Hibernate OGM? It provides JPA for No-SQL databases.
Migration would be easier if you use Spring MongoTemplate (similar to HibernateTemplate). Among its features is support for JPA annotations (although, I'm not sure to what extent).
See more: http://www.springsource.org/spring-data/mongodb
You'll need the following:
Add spring-data-mongodb JAR to your project (available in maven
central).
Add mongo-java-driver JAR to your project (available in
maven central).
Use the provided MongoTemplate class in a similar
manner to HibernateTemplate. E.g.:
mongoTemplate.findById(id, MyClass.class);
mongoTemplate.insert(myObject);
Here's a concrete example with code: use-spring-and-hibernate-with-mongodb
If you are using Java then you can use Hibernate OGM it provides Java Persistence support for NoSQL databases.
For more details visit http://hibernate.org/ogm/
There is nice work done earlier as:
http://pragmaticintegrator.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/use-spring-and-hibernate-with-mongodb/
http://pragmaticintegrator.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/unit-test-your-springhibernate-and-mongodb-setup/#comments
refer to these links. it will be helpful to you.
There is also kundera, which uses JPA-annotations to read/write your object from/to a mongodb. If you ara familiar with hibernate, it should be quite straightformard to use.
I recently tried Morphia, which takes the same approach, but with its own annotations.
It works fine
May this blog helps: http://drorbr.blogspot.com/2010/02/migrating-springhibernate-application.html
Here Dror Bereznitsky describes nicely how to integrate a sping/hibernate based solution with mongodb.
For the sake of completeness, PlayORM also supports MongoDB now. PlayORM is an object NoSQL mapping solution so you can write POJO’s and let it deal with all the details of marshalling/unmarshalling to MongoDB. Visit its documentation here
I think Hibernate provides desired functionality. Take a look at this, found on their official website:
Mixing several NoSQL datastores in one application, e.g. use Neo4j for your friendship graph and MongoDB for your blog posts. Or mix NoSQL and relational databases.
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Well just to give you an example, I am doing somehting simmilar. In ColdFusion, Hibernate is integrated and in order to save your Hibernate Object, you hvae to do EntitySave(Obj). However what we have done is build the Orm object, and then use a mongoDB Coldfusion component and just save the object by going mongo.Save(obj,collectionName).

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