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A Developer Guide to NoSQL Persistence on The Jakarta EE Platform With Google Firestore

A Developer Guide to NoSQL Persistence on The Jakarta EE Platform With Google Firestore

Document NoSQL databases store data as document objects, much like JSON objects.

Google Firestore is a document database, a NoSQL database offering from Google’s Firebase service. You store your data in documents that are collected into collections.

This guide will introduce you to incorporating Firestore NoSQL database into your Jakarta EE application.

In the process, you will learn:

The theory of Jakarta EE
A brief history of NoSQL
Types of NoSQL databases
How to incorporate Firestore database into your application
How to make basic CRUD operations using the Firestore database.

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