Hi all, I agree with Alfonso. We should describe what Gora is and not just what it does. On a lot of presentations an easy way to describe Gora to people is saying that I like to think of Gora as the "JDBC for NoSQL" which is sort of true. I mean we do provide object mapping capabilities, but we have a lot more options than Hibernate, and we do similar stuff to Kiji[1], but we aim for different things (they have (re)defined their own data specification language, and have other cool features) as we try to support more than just one data store. And of course, we still have our in-memory capabilities that we have to explore in the future. According to [2] Gora is a "Generic Object Representation using Avro" or Dogacan's dog :) So what is Gora? I guess it's different things for different people, but the current definition really describes what we do:
"The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and persistence for big data." We could also say that Gora provides a data model abstraction of different data stores and presents a simple KeyValue data model for all supported data stores. But that is also what we do, and not what we are ;) So I think we should work on our definition wording because it is correct, but maybe doesn't sound as we want it to. And add Gora functionalities because we have many! Renato M. [1] http://www.kiji.org/ [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GORA-3 2014-05-19 16:31 GMT+02:00 Alfonso Nishikawa <alfonso.nishik...@gmail.com>: > Hi! > > Maybe add something about "Object Mapper" or "data engineering layer"? > Certainly it "provides" and "supports" as tells the current description, > but, what "is"? :) > Can we give a description not limited to describing its features? > > Thanks! :) > > Alfonso > El 19/05/2014 02:18, "Lewis John Mcgibbney" <lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> > escribió: > > > Hi Folks, > > This one is simple.. but has been on my mind for a while. > > Gora is currently described as follows > > > > The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model > and > > persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key > > value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with > > extensive Apache Hadoop™ MapReduce support. Gora uses the Apache Software > > License v2.0. Gora graduated from the Apache Incubator in January 2012 to > > become a top-level Apache project. > > > > Is this an accurate description of the project any more? > > I remember that we fabricated this description when Chris Mattmann was > > trying to push us through the Incubator however I am not so sure that > this > > adequately sums up what Gora is anymore... w have wider data store > > support... even more in the pipeline and GSoC projects have taken us in > > different directions as well... > > > > wdy guys think? > > Thanks > > > > > > -- > > *Lewis* > > >
