Building applications for big data storage

NoSQL databases have become popular nowadays in building big data storage. Spring has provided support for some of the most popular big data technologies like Hadoop. However, this recipe aims to implement an application that can persist and retrieve data from big data storage technology that is scalable, easy to configure and set up, and simple when it comes to sharding, replications, and CRUD transactions. Before this chapter ends, here is an implementation of Spring Boot 2.0 that connects to Apache CouchDB with fewer configuration details.

Getting ready

Create a new Maven project, ch12-couch, that will implement data persistence and retrieval from the CouchDB storage.

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