DataNucleus is, to a large degree, driven by customer demand. If there is a demand for a
particular datastore, or API, or query language, then our roadmap will be flexible enough to
incorporate it. We have the following on our current roadmap.
The baseline release of DataNucleus Access Platform is codenamed "Faraday" (Version 1.0).
Faraday is targetted to include the following features
- Standards-compliant Java persistence using JDO or JPA APIs
- Persistence of data to RDBMS, db4o, LDAP, Excel, XML, NeoDatis, and JSON datastores.
- Querying of data using JDOQL, JPQL, and SQL
- Rewritten Level 2 cache
Faraday is targetted for release at the start of September 2008.
Faraday ? : Michael Faraday was a scientist who, in 1844, was the first to
refer to a nucleus as the central point of the atom.
This will be the first release of DataNucleus Analysis Platform aimed at data quality,
profiling, and management for Java.
The second release of DataNucleus Access Platform is codenamed "Rutherford" (Version 1.1).
Rutherford is targetted to include the following features
- Complete support for JDOQL/JPQL syntaxis across all supported datastores
- Improvements to persistence to LDAP, XML, NeoDatis etc
Rutherford ? : Ernest Rutherford was a scientist who, in 1912, proposed
the modern meaning of the term "nucleus"
