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JavaScript Database Library – Part 2

Earlier I wrote a post in which I tried to cover as much libraries as possible in the space of “JavaScript Database Library”. Later on I realized that that was in no way a complete list. When I research more, I could see another set of libraries as detailed below, which falls into the same category. Still I am not claiming that the list is exhaustive, but at least it gives various options we have in hand before selecting one for your application development.

Missed ones:
1. story.js – https://github.com/gilf/story.js
2. persistence.js
3. persistJS
4. amplify.store
5. localStorageDB
6. realStorage
7. YUI3 CacheOffline
8. DomSQL
9. Impel
10. ActiveJSActiveRecord
11. JazzRecord
12. picnet.data.DataManager
13. ShinyCar
14. lscache
15. microcache.js

One day I hope to write at least a small abstract on each one of these and also create some matrices which can be used meaningfully to select a particular library for your application.

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JavaScript Database Library – Part 1

JavaScript is a universal language now. Its popularity, usage and its capabilities will keep increasing day by day. The future of especially web application development is in the hands of JavaScript and its various libraries and frameworks.

With node.js, JavaScript has also captured the niche server side as well in storm. In distant future, just by knowing JavaScript you would be bale to code an entire web application, both server and client side with ease.
This post, i cannot call as a very good blog post, but i just wanted to share the list of JavaScript database libraries i just searched using Google. Some of them might not be that useful a library as of now but can go on become more mature down the line.

The below lists some of the JavaScript database library:

TaffyDB – http://www.taffydb.com/
Lawnchair – http://brian.io/lawnchair/
Storjsdb – http://code.google.com/p/storjsdb/
Jstorage – http://www.jstorage.info/
SQLite – http://www.sqlite.org/
YDN-DB – http://dev.yathit.com/ydn-db/index.html
PouchDB – http://pouchdb.com/
Loki.js – http://lokijs.org/
XBSDB – http://xbsdb.org/
Store.js – https://github.com/marcuswestin/store.js
Sql.js – https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/
BankersBox – https://github.com/twilio/BankersBox
IDBWrapper – http://jensarps.github.io/IDBWrapper/
JayData – http://jaydata.org/
Kizzy – https://github.com/ded/Kizzy
Artemia – https://github.com/js-experiments/artemia
Strg.js – https://github.com/fend25/strg.js
localForage – https://github.com/mozilla/localForage
Rhaboo – http://adrianmay.github.io/rhaboo/

The above list was gathered from mere Googling and by reading through below sites:
https://www.javascripting.com
http://jster.net

These sites lists most of the JavaScript libraries which exists around the world written by awesome people.

Now the big question, which one should i use or standardize as the best one to develop a medium web application?
I don’t know, if anyone can help me, please drop me a comment and i will try to collate it and put another post, which would be more relevant and meaningful a post fr others.

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Spring Book – Chapter 8 – Data Access

One of the very important aspect in any enterprise application is the ability to get data in and out of your application with ease. Thinking on the same lines, Spring framework provides extensive support for data access. In this Chapter we will first explore the various data access technologies and then see the support provided by Spring for using these technologies in your application.

Spring effectively makes data access easier by managing the various resource for you, by providing abstraction and easy API helpers and by supporting all major data access technologies available in the industry so that you don’t have to get yourself bogged down to a particular technology. Going along with the Spring philosophy it lets your Spring application integrate to any data access technology with ease.

In this Chapter we will see the support given the Spring framework in interacting between data access layer and the service layer in your application. Spring compressive support for transaction management will be covered briefly as we have dedicated Chapter 9 for this specific topic. In this chapter we will also be covering various data access frameworks and technologies which the Spring framework integrates with almost ease.

Enterprise Data Access

Spring integrates and works just fine with all leading data access technologies at present available in market. Accessing eternal system like a database requires various resources at various stages. You will also have to look for resource contention and make sure that resource which is limited is managed properly and efficiently. Such resource management becomes critically important in mission critical enterprise application.

Putting the burden of maintaining these resources in an application to a developer not only puts additional pressure in a developer but also puts an additional risk on the overall application’s success. Spring provides comprehensive resource management capability which takes this burden away from the developer and entrust him with writing the actual business application logic.

Resource Management

As discussed earlier Spring integrates seamlessly with almost all data access technologies like JDBC, Hibernate, iBatis, JPA or JDO in a consistent way. Using Spring, you are not locked down to a particular technology and as case may be, you have the freedom of switching between the various technologies without worrying too much about the technology specific nitty-gritties. Figure 8-1 also shows the various classes which will be used to in the code samples in this chapter in various sections.

Figure 8-1. Spring Integration with well know data access technologies

Spring internally take care of the various resource management functionalities specific to data access technologies so that the developer concentrates on the actual application logic rather than data access technology specific coding.

Some of the key features which the Spring framework provides in resource management are:

  • Transaction Management
  • Connection Management
  • Exception Handling

In a typical application, the resource management capabilities are related with connection and transaction management. While trying to manage connection and transaction, there are exceptions that arise and resource management should also be capable of dealing these exceptions in timely and orderly fashion. Figure 8-2 shows a typical resource management scenario in an application.

Figure 8-2. A typical resource management scenario in any application

The following sections will look into these features of Spring in some detail so that you get a clear picture of what are the features which Spring transparently does for you in developing your application.

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