A co-worker just shared this video with me, it’s all about the Content Repository API for Java, a new-ish standard for building databases that’s gaining market share in Europe. The standard is open sourced and you can store anything and access the data however you want. The system supports strong typed data, as well as no types. Of particular interest to web developers, everything is REST based. The result is you can build db’s storing hierarchical, unlimited metadata. Find out that you’ve got a new piece of data you need to include that you didn’t anticipate prior to starting the build? No problem! That gives it some interesting advantages as compared to traditional relational databases.
Very cool stuff!