Hibernate Shards

Project Lead:	Max Ross
Contributors:	Tomislav Nad, Maulik Shah, and others
Latest release:	3.0.0 Beta2 (Changelog) (Road Map)
Release date:	02.08.2007
Requirements:	Hibernate Core 3.2, JDK 5.0

You can't always put all your relational data in a single relational database. Sometimes you simply have too much data. Sometimes you have a distributed deployment architecture. Sometimes the lawyers say "no" (or more likely, "NOOO!"). Whatever your reasons, talking to multiple relational databases inevitably complicates the development of your application. Hibernate Shards is a framework that is designed to encapsulate and minimize this complexity by adding support for horizontal partitioning to Hibernate Core.

Please feel free to browse the available Hibernate Shards Documentation.

Hibernate Shards key features:

• Standard Hibernate programming model - Hibernate Shards allows you to continue using the Hibernate APIs you know and love: SessionFactory, Session, Criteria, Query. If you already know how to use Hibernate, you already know how to use Hibernate Shards.

• Flexible sharding strategies - Distribute data across your shards any way you want. Use one of the default strategies we provide or plug in your own application-specific logic.

• Support for virtual shards - Think your sharding strategy is never going to change? Think again. Adding new shards and redistributing your data is one of the toughest operational challenges you will face once you've deployed your shard-aware application. Hibernate Sharding supports virtual shards, a feature designed to simplify the process of resharding your data.

• Free/open source - Hibernate Shards is licensed under the LGPL (Lesser GNU Public License)

The initial release of Hibernate Shards is currently in beta-testing phase and is available for download.