Spring Data provides additional projects that help you access a variety of NoSQL technologies including MongoDB, Neo4J, Elasticsearch, Solr, Redis, Gemfire, Cassandra, Couchbase and LDAP. Spring Boot provides auto-configuration for Redis, MongoDB, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, Solr Cassandra, Couchbase and LDAP; you can make use of the other projects, but you will need to configure them yourself. Refer to the appropriate reference documentation at projects.spring.io/spring-data.
Redis is a cache, message broker and richly-featured key-value store.
Spring Boot offers basic auto-configuration for the
Jedis client library and abstractions on top of it
provided by Spring Data Redis. There
is a spring-boot-starter-data-redis
‘Starter’ for collecting the dependencies in a
convenient way.
You can inject an auto-configured RedisConnectionFactory
, StringRedisTemplate
or
vanilla RedisTemplate
instance as you would any other Spring Bean. By default the
instance will attempt to connect to a Redis server using localhost:6379
:
@Component public class MyBean { private StringRedisTemplate template; @Autowired public MyBean(StringRedisTemplate template) { this.template = template; } // ... }
If you add a @Bean
of your own of any of the auto-configured types it will replace the
default (except in the case of RedisTemplate
the exclusion is based on the bean name
‘redisTemplate’ not its type). If commons-pool2
is on the classpath you will get a
pooled connection factory by default.
MongoDB is an open-source NoSQL document database that uses a
JSON-like schema instead of traditional table-based relational data. Spring Boot offers
several conveniences for working with MongoDB, including the
spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb
‘Starter’.
You can inject an auto-configured org.springframework.data.mongodb.MongoDbFactory
to
access Mongo databases. By default the instance will attempt to connect to a MongoDB
server using the URL mongodb://localhost/test
:
import org.springframework.data.mongodb.MongoDbFactory; import com.mongodb.DB; @Component public class MyBean { private final MongoDbFactory mongo; @Autowired public MyBean(MongoDbFactory mongo) { this.mongo = mongo; } // ... public void example() { DB db = mongo.getDb(); // ... } }
You can set spring.data.mongodb.uri
property to change the URL and configure
additional settings such as the replica set:
spring.data.mongodb.uri=mongodb://user:[email protected]:12345,mongo2.example.com:23456/test
Alternatively, as long as you’re using Mongo 2.x, specify a host
/port
. For example,
you might declare the following in your application.properties
:
spring.data.mongodb.host=mongoserver spring.data.mongodb.port=27017
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You can also declare your own MongoDbFactory
or Mongo
bean if you want to take
complete control of establishing the MongoDB connection.
Spring Data Mongo provides a
MongoTemplate
class that is very
similar in its design to Spring’s JdbcTemplate
. As with JdbcTemplate
Spring Boot
auto-configures a bean for you to simply inject:
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; import org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate; import org.springframework.stereotype.Component; @Component public class MyBean { private final MongoTemplate mongoTemplate; @Autowired public MyBean(MongoTemplate mongoTemplate) { this.mongoTemplate = mongoTemplate; } // ... }
See the MongoOperations
Javadoc for complete details.
Spring Data includes repository support for MongoDB. As with the JPA repositories discussed earlier, the basic principle is that queries are constructed for you automatically based on method names.
In fact, both Spring Data JPA and Spring Data MongoDB share the same common
infrastructure; so you could take the JPA example from earlier and, assuming that City
is now a Mongo data class rather than a JPA @Entity
, it will work in the same way.
package com.example.myapp.domain; import org.springframework.data.domain.*; import org.springframework.data.repository.*; public interface CityRepository extends Repository<City, Long> { Page<City> findAll(Pageable pageable); City findByNameAndCountryAllIgnoringCase(String name, String country); }
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For complete details of Spring Data MongoDB, including its rich object mapping technologies, refer to their reference documentation. |
Spring Boot offers auto-configuration for
Embedded Mongo. To use
it in your Spring Boot application add a dependency on
de.flapdoodle.embed:de.flapdoodle.embed.mongo
.
The port that Mongo will listen on can be configured using the spring.data.mongodb.port
property. To use a randomly allocated free port use a value of zero. The MongoClient
created by MongoAutoConfiguration
will be automatically configured to use the randomly
allocated port.
If you have SLF4J on the classpath, output produced by Mongo will be automatically routed
to a logger named org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.mongo.embedded.EmbeddedMongo
.
You can declare your own IMongodConfig
and IRuntimeConfig
beans to take control of the
Mongo instance’s configuration and logging routing.
Neo4j is an open-source NoSQL graph database that uses a rich data
model of nodes related by first class relationships which is better suited for connected
big data than traditional rdbms approaches. Spring Boot offers several conveniences for
working with Neo4j, including the spring-boot-starter-data-neo4j
‘Starter’.
You can inject an auto-configured Neo4jSession
, Session
or Neo4jOperations
instance
as you would any other Spring Bean. By default the instance will attempt to connect to a
Neo4j server using localhost:7474
:
@Component public class MyBean { private final Neo4jTemplate neo4jTemplate; @Autowired public MyBean(Neo4jTemplate neo4jTemplate) { this.neo4jTemplate = neo4jTemplate; } // ... }
You can take full control of the configuration by adding a
org.neo4j.ogm.config.Configuration
@Bean
of your own. Also, adding a @Bean
of type
Neo4jOperations
disables the auto-configuration.
You can configure the user and credentials to use via the spring.data.neo4j.*
properties:
spring.data.neo4j.uri=http://my-server:7474 spring.data.neo4j.username=neo4j spring.data.neo4j.password=secret
If you add org.neo4j:neo4j-ogm-embedded-driver
to the dependencies of your application,
Spring Boot will automatically configure an in-process embedded instance of Neo4j that
will not persist any data when your application shuts down. You can explicitly disable
that mode using spring.data.neo4j.embedded.enabled=false
. You can also enable
persistence for the embedded mode:
spring.data.neo4j.uri=file://var/tmp/graph.db
By default, the lifetime of the session is scoped to the application. If you are running a web application, you can change it so that the session is bound to the thread for the entire processing of the request (i.e. the "Open Session in View" pattern):
spring.data.neo4j.open-in-view=true
Spring Data includes repository support for Neo4j.
In fact, both Spring Data JPA and Spring Data Neo4j share the same common
infrastructure; so you could take the JPA example from earlier and, assuming that City
is now a Neo4j OGM @NodeEntity
rather than a JPA @Entity
, it will work in the same
way.
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To enable repository support (and optionally support for @Transactional
), add the
following two annotations to your Spring configuration:
@EnableNeo4jRepositories(basePackages = "com.example.myapp.repository")
@EnableTransactionManagement
package com.example.myapp.domain; import org.springframework.data.domain.*; import org.springframework.data.repository.*; public interface CityRepository extends GraphRepository<City> { Page<City> findAll(Pageable pageable); City findByNameAndCountry(String name, String country); }
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For complete details of Spring Data Neo4j, including its rich object mapping technologies, refer to their reference documentation. |
Spring Data Gemfire provides
convenient Spring-friendly tools for accessing the
Pivotal Gemfire data management
platform. There is a spring-boot-starter-data-gemfire
‘Starter’ for collecting the
dependencies in a convenient way. There is currently no auto-configuration support for
Gemfire, but you can enable Spring Data Repositories with a
single annotation (@EnableGemfireRepositories
).
Apache Solr is a search engine. Spring Boot offers basic
auto-configuration for the Solr 5 client library and abstractions on top of it provided by
Spring Data Solr. There is
a spring-boot-starter-data-solr
‘Starter’ for collecting the dependencies in a
convenient way.
You can inject an auto-configured SolrClient
instance as you would any other Spring
bean. By default the instance will attempt to connect to a server using
localhost:8983/solr
:
@Component public class MyBean { private SolrClient solr; @Autowired public MyBean(SolrClient solr) { this.solr = solr; } // ... }
If you add a @Bean
of your own of type SolrClient
it will replace the default.
Spring Data includes repository support for Apache Solr. As with the JPA repositories discussed earlier, the basic principle is that queries are constructed for you automatically based on method names.
In fact, both Spring Data JPA and Spring Data Solr share the same common infrastructure;
so you could take the JPA example from earlier and, assuming that City
is now a
@SolrDocument
class rather than a JPA @Entity
, it will work in the same way.
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Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed,
real-time search and analytics engine. Spring Boot offers basic auto-configuration for
the Elasticsearch and abstractions on top of it provided by
Spring Data Elasticsearch.
There is a spring-boot-starter-data-elasticsearch
‘Starter’ for collecting the
dependencies in a convenient way. Spring Boot also supports
Jest.
If you have Jest
on the classpath, you can inject an auto-configured JestClient
targeting localhost:9200
by default. You can further tune how the client is
configured:
spring.elasticsearch.jest.uris=http://search.example.com:9200 spring.elasticsearch.jest.read-timeout=10000 spring.elasticsearch.jest.username=user spring.elasticsearch.jest.password=secret
You can also register an arbitrary number of beans implementing
HttpClientConfigBuilderCustomizer
for more advanced customizations. The example below
tunes additional HTTP settings:
static class HttpSettingsCustomizer implements HttpClientConfigBuilderCustomizer { @Override public void customize(HttpClientConfig.Builder builder) { builder.maxTotalConnection(100).defaultMaxTotalConnectionPerRoute(5); } }
To take full control over the registration, define a JestClient
bean.
You can inject an auto-configured ElasticsearchTemplate
or Elasticsearch Client
instance as you would any other Spring Bean. By default the instance will embed a
local in-memory server (a Node
in Elasticsearch terms) and use the current working
directory as the home directory for the server. In this setup, the first thing to do
is to tell Elasticsearch where to store its files:
spring.data.elasticsearch.properties.path.home=/foo/bar
Alternatively, you can switch to a remote server (i.e. a TransportClient
) by setting
spring.data.elasticsearch.cluster-nodes
to a comma-separated ‘host:port’ list.
spring.data.elasticsearch.cluster-nodes=localhost:9300
@Component public class MyBean { private ElasticsearchTemplate template; @Autowired public MyBean(ElasticsearchTemplate template) { this.template = template; } // ... }
If you add a @Bean
of your own of type ElasticsearchTemplate
it will replace the
default.
Spring Data includes repository support for Elasticsearch. As with the JPA repositories discussed earlier, the basic principle is that queries are constructed for you automatically based on method names.
In fact, both Spring Data JPA and Spring Data Elasticsearch share the same common
infrastructure; so you could take the JPA example from earlier and, assuming that
City
is now an Elasticsearch @Document
class rather than a JPA @Entity
, it will
work in the same way.
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Cassandra is an open source, distributed database management
system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers. Spring Boot
offers auto-configuration for Cassandra and abstractions on top of it provided by
Spring Data Cassandra.
There is a spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra
‘Starter’ for collecting the
dependencies in a convenient way.
You can inject an auto-configured CassandraTemplate
or a Cassandra Session
instance as you would with any other Spring Bean. The spring.data.cassandra.*
properties can be used to customize the connection. Generally you will provide
keyspace-name
and contact-points
properties:
spring.data.cassandra.keyspace-name=mykeyspace spring.data.cassandra.contact-points=cassandrahost1,cassandrahost2
@Component public class MyBean { private CassandraTemplate template; @Autowired public MyBean(CassandraTemplate template) { this.template = template; } // ... }
If you add a @Bean
of your own of type CassandraTemplate
it will replace the
default.
Spring Data includes basic repository support for Cassandra. Currently this is more
limited than the JPA repositories discussed earlier, and will need to annotate finder
methods with @Query
.
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Couchbase is an open-source, distributed multi-model NoSQL
document-oriented database that is optimized for interactive applications. Spring Boot
offers auto-configuration for Couchbase and abstractions on top of it provided by
Spring Data Couchbase.
There is a spring-boot-starter-data-couchbase
‘Starter’ for collecting the
dependencies in a convenient way.
You can very easily get a Bucket
and Cluster
by adding the Couchbase SDK and some
configuration. The spring.couchbase.*
properties can be used to customize the
connection. Generally you will provide the bootstrap hosts, bucket name and password:
spring.couchbase.bootstrap-hosts=my-host-1,192.168.1.123 spring.couchbase.bucket.name=my-bucket spring.couchbase.bucket.password=secret
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You need to provide at least the bootstrap host(s), in which case the bucket name
is |
It is also possible to customize some of the CouchbaseEnvironment
settings. For instance
the following configuration changes the timeout to use to open a new Bucket
and enables
SSL support:
spring.couchbase.env.timeouts.connect=3000 spring.couchbase.env.ssl.key-store=/location/of/keystore.jks spring.couchbase.env.ssl.key-store-password=secret
Check the spring.couchbase.env.*
properties for more details.
Spring Data includes repository support for Couchbase. For complete details of Spring Data Couchbase, refer to their reference documentation.
You can inject an auto-configured CouchbaseTemplate
instance as you would with any
other Spring Bean as long as a default CouchbaseConfigurer
is available (that
happens when you enable the couchbase support as explained above).
@Component public class MyBean { private final CouchbaseTemplate template; @Autowired public MyBean(CouchbaseTemplate template) { this.template = template; } // ... }
There are a few beans that you can define in your own configuration to override those provided by the auto-configuration:
CouchbaseTemplate
@Bean
with name couchbaseTemplate
IndexManager
@Bean
with name couchbaseIndexManager
CustomConversions
@Bean
with name couchbaseCustomConversions
To avoid hard-coding those names in your own config, you can reuse BeanNames
provided
by Spring Data Couchbase. For instance, you can customize the converters to use as
follows:
@Configuration public class SomeConfiguration { @Bean(BeanNames.COUCHBASE_CUSTOM_CONVERSIONS) public CustomConversions myCustomConversions() { return new CustomConversions(...); } // ... }
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If you want to fully bypass the auto-configuration for Spring Data Couchbase, provide
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LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an IP network. Spring Boot offers auto-configuration for any compliant LDAP server as well as support for the embedded in-memory LDAP server from Unbounded.
LDAP abstractions are provided by
Spring Data LDAP.
There is a spring-boot-starter-data-ldap
‘Starter’ for collecting the dependencies in
a convenient way.
To connect to an LDAP server make sure you declare a dependency on the
spring-boot-starter-data-ldap
‘Starter’ or spring-ldap-core
then declare the
URLs of your server in your application.properties:
spring.ldap.urls=ldap://myserver:1235 spring.ldap.username=admin spring.ldap.password=secret
If you need to customize connection settings you can use the spring.ldap.base
and
spring.ldap.base-environment
properties.
Spring Data includes repository support for LDAP. For complete details of Spring Data LDAP, refer to their reference documentation.
You can also inject an auto-configured LdapTemplate
instance as you would with any
other Spring Bean.
@Component public class MyBean { private final LdapTemplate template; @Autowired public MyBean(LdapTemplate template) { this.template = template; } // ... }
For testing purposes Spring Boot supports auto-configuration of an in-memory LDAP server
from Unbounded. To configure the server
add a dependency to com.unboundid:unboundid-ldapsdk
and declare a base-dn
property:
spring.ldap.embedded.base-dn=dc=spring,dc=io
By default the server will start on a random port and the trigger the regular LDAP support
(there is not need to specify a spring.ldap.urls
property).
If there is a schema.ldif
file on your classpath it will be used to initialize the
server. You can also use the spring.ldap.embedded.ldif
property if you want to load
the initialization script from a different resource.