What is Objectify?
It is a Java data access API specifically designed for the Google Cloud Datastore. It occupies a "middle ground"; easier to use and more transparent than JDO or JPA, but significantly more convenient than the low-level API libraries that Google provides. Objectify is designed to make novices immediately productive yet also expose the full power of the Datastore.
Objectify is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Lets you persist, retrieve, delete, and query your own typed objectsSurfaces all native datastore features, including batch operations, queries, transactions, asynchronous operations, and partial indexesProvides type-safe key and query classes using Java genericsProvides a human-friendly query interface
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Objectify Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Objectify?
Slick
It is a modern database query and access library for Scala. It allows you to work with stored data almost as if you were using Scala collections while at the same time giving you full control over when a database access happens and which data is transferred.
guava
The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.
Spring Data
It makes it easy to use data access technologies, relational and non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud-based data services. This is an umbrella project which contains many subprojects that are specific to a given database.
