Spring Reactive Neo4j

Hello friends!!! Here we are going to discuss Spring Boot with NoSQL, how Spring Boot provide the support for NoSQL technologies and how to use into Spring Boot Application. NoSQL is a non-relational database management systems, different from traditional relational database management systems in some significant ways.

NoSQL is nothing but it is database without support of SQL queries unlike traditional databases MySQL, DB2, Oracle etc. Spring Data provides additional projects that help you access a variety of NoSQL technologies including MongoDB, Neo4J, Elasticsearch, Solr, Redis, Gemfire, Couchbase and Cassandra. Spring Boot provides auto-configuration for Redis, MongoDB, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, Solr and Cassandra.

At Neo4j, we started a big cross team effort to provide reactive database access to Neo4j, the world's leading graph database, in 2019: We wanted to have an reactive stack, right from the query execution engine, to transport layer, the driver and then at least having one premier data abstraction layer. Spring Data Neo4j » 6.0.2. Next generation Object-Graph-Mapping for Spring Data. License: Apache 2.0. Io.reactivex » rxjava-reactive-streams (optional) 1.2.1. If you have multiple transactions in the same thread or the same reactive stream, SDN/RX will take care that you will read your own writes. It makes use of the bookmarking mechanism provided.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to 'Spring Boot Buch' author, Spring community legend and an engineer working on the new, reactive Spring Data Neo4j project Michael Simons. Re.

Spring Boot with NoSQL

1. MongoDB

MongoDB is an open-source NoSQL document database that uses a JSON-like schema instead of traditional table-based relational data. Spring Boot offers several conveniences for working with MongoDB, including the spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb ‘Starter’. Spring Data includes repository support for MongoDB.

Spring Boot offers auto-configuration for Embedded Mongo. To use it in your Spring Boot application add a dependency on de.flapdoodle.embed:de.flapdoodle.embed.mongo. The port that Mongo will listen on can be configured using the spring.data.mongodb.port property. To use a randomly allocated free port use a value of zero. The MongoClient created by MongoAutoConfiguration will be automatically configured to use the randomly allocated port.

1.1 Connecting to a MongoDB database

Spring Data Mongo provides a MongoTemplate class that is very similar in its design to Spring’s JdbcTemplate. As with JdbcTemplate Spring Boot auto-configures a bean for you to simply inject: Mac os catalina 10.15 2 download.

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2. Neo4j

Neo4j is an open-source NoSQL graph database that uses a rich data model of nodes related by first class relationships which is better suited for connected big data than traditional rdbms approaches. Spring Boot offers several conveniences for working with Neo4j, including the spring-boot-starter-data-neo4j ‘Starter’.

You can configure the user and credentials to use via the spring.data.neo4j.* properties:

2.1 Connecting to a Neo4j database

By default the instance will attempt to connect to a Neo4j server using localhost:7474

2.2 Using the embedded mode

If you add org.neo4j:neo4j-ogm-embedded-driver to the dependencies of your application, Spring Boot will automatically configure an in-process embedded instance of Neo4j that will not persist any data when your application shuts down. You can explicitly disable that mode using spring.data.neo4j.embedded.enabled=false.

2.3 Spring Data Neo4j repositories

Spring Data includes repository support for Neo4j. You can customize entity scanning locations using the @NodeEntityScan annotation.

3. Redis

Redis is a cache, message broker and richly-featured key-value store. Spring Boot offers basic auto-configuration for the Jedis client library and abstractions on top of it provided by Spring Data Redis. There is a spring-boot-starter-data-redis ‘Starter’ for collecting the dependencies in a convenient way.

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You can inject an auto-configured RedisConnectionFactory, StringRedisTemplate or vanilla RedisTemplate instance as you would any other Spring Bean. By default the instance will attempt to connect to a Redis server using localhost:6379.

4. Gemfire

Spring Data Gemfire provides convenient Spring-friendly tools for accessing the Pivotal Gemfire data management platform. There is a spring-boot-starter-data-gemfire ‘Starter’ for collecting the dependencies in a convenient way. There is currently no auto-configuration support for Gemfire, but you can enable Spring Data Repositories with a single annotation (@EnableGemfireRepositories).

5. Solr

Apache Solr is a search engine. Spring Boot offers basic auto-configuration for the Solr 5 client library and abstractions on top of it provided by Spring Data Solr. There is a spring-boot-starter-data-solr ‘Starter’ for collecting the dependencies in a convenient way.

You can inject an auto-configured SolrClient instance as you would any other Spring bean. By default the instance will attempt to connect to a server using localhost:8983/solr:

5.1 Spring Data Solr repositories

Spring Data includes repository support for Apache Solr.

6. Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine. Spring Boot offers basic auto-configuration for the Elasticsearch and abstractions on top of it provided by Spring Data Elasticsearch. There is a spring-boot-starter-data-elasticsearch ‘Starter’ for collecting the dependencies in a convenient way. Spring Boot also supports Jest.

6.1 Connecting to Elasticsearch using Spring Data

You can inject an auto-configured ElasticsearchTemplate or Elasticsearch Client instance as you would any other Spring Bean. By default the instance will embed a local in-memory server (a Node in Elasticsearch terms) and use the current working directory as the home directory for the server.
you can switch to a remote server by setting spring.data.elasticsearch.cluster-nodes to a comma-separated ‘host:port’ list.

Spring Data includes repository support for Elasticsearch. Scidot science 66 keygen serial.

6.2 Connecting to Elasticsearch using Jest

If you have Jest on the classpath, you can inject an auto-configured JestClient targeting localhost:9200 by default.

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7. Cassandra

Cassandra is an open source, distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers. Spring Boot offers auto-configuration for Cassandra and abstractions on top of it provided by Spring Data Cassandra. There is a spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra ‘Starter’ for collecting the dependencies in a convenient way.

7.1 Connecting to Cassandra

You can inject an auto-configured CassandraTemplate or a Cassandra Session instance as you would with any other Spring Bean. The spring.data.cassandra.* properties can be used to customize the connection.

8. Couchbase

Couchbase is an open-source, distributed multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database that is optimized for interactive applications. Spring Boot offers auto-configuration for Couchbase and abstractions on top of it provided by Spring Data Couchbase. There is a spring-boot-starter-data-couchbase ‘Starter’ for collecting the dependencies in a convenient way.

The spring.couchbase.* properties can be used to customize the connection. Generally you will provide the bootstrap hosts, bucket name and password:

Spring Data includes repository support for Couchbase. ou can inject an auto-configured CouchbaseTemplate instance.

Summary

Here we have discussed some detail about NoSQL database with Spring Boot. Spring Boot Provide major support and auto configuration for connect to NoSQl databases.

Happy Spring Boot Learning!!!

Reference
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  1. Introduction to Spring Boot

A couple of weeks ago, I received a paper copy of “Hacking with Spring Boot 2.3 – Reactive Edition” by Greg L. Turnquist. Greg sent this copy to me free of charge for a review. Thanks for that!

I’m happy about the opportunity to read a new Spring Boot book after I published one myself nearly two years ago (See Spring Boot Buch) about Spring Boot 2.0.

I also have only high regards of Greg. While I work at Neo4j, Inc. and Greg at VMWare we happen to have very similar tasks: We both work at various Spring Data modules and meet regularly at the shared standup.

About the print

Greg chose to self-publish his new book and I can totally relate. My copy came as “print on demand” version from Amazon. The quality is really nice and in no way worse than Greg’s previous book.

I may prefer a more black typesetting, but it’s still readable well enough. Apart from that, you clearly see it’s AsciiDoc based sources 🙂

Lexicon or hands on?

Hacking with Spring Boot 2.3 is definitely a hands on book. After a quick introduction to Spring Boot itself, Greg jumps right away from it 🙂 The focus lies on introduction reactive programming concepts and a very simple kitchen domain.

All the time, it really feels like you are sitting with Greg together on the keyboard, pair programming.

What I like about not doing Spring and Spring Boot related stuff at the very beginning is the mere fact that this is what Spring should be about: Providing the plumbing for your domain around it, not inside it. Having the start designed this way is excellent.

Of course, Greg needs to introduce core Spring Boot concepts at the beginning and we get a good overview about Spring Boot starters, auto configuration, metadata and more.

On data access

The book is about hacking with Spring Boot, not with Spring Data. But I agree 100% with Greg that an application without data is somewhat meaningless. As the book targets reactive programming especially, Greg has to pick a database that supports real reactive drivers, not something wrapped in a thread pool. At the time of writing, MongoDB was the predominant one. I would have of course loved to see SDN/RX and Neo4j, but I guess I cannot have everything.

In the meantime, you can go for Neo4j or with R2DBC and several SQL-Databases (amongst them, PostgresQL).

Anyway, I do think that Greg manages to cover standard idioms and best practices to work with Spring Data based data access code a like. It’s an exhausting topic, but the overview is just right.

On developer tools

Solid content on the “standard” Spring Boot developer tools, like restarting mechanisms and caching. Complete and nothing much to say about. The new logging groups are mentioned.

The information about Project Reactors debug mode, the logging mechanism for reactive assemblies and also the reference to the BlockHound a very valuable, even for a seasoned library developer like myself.

On testing

Testing with Spring Boot is a solid introduction to the testing support. It recaps the differences between unit, integration and end-to-end-tests. It clarifies that Spring Boot (and Spring) always strived for testability, in contrast to other believes.

While I would have probably chose different examples for testing services – for example not firing up the Spring Context at all as long as possible, especially with everything constructor injected as one should do – I super like the stance on reactive testing support. Starting about Project Reactors step verifiers and some more gems:

I learned about to things: Mono#hide respectively the corresponding fact that Project reactor may optimizes empty monos away and about Blockhounds JUnit 5 integration (Remember: Blockhound detects blocking calls in reactive code):

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The above dependency brings in a test execution listener that instruments all running tests. Sweet and short.

Operations with Spring Boot

So must of the Docker and container related stuff in that chapter is brand new Spring Boot 2.3. Spring Boot Actuator has been there forever, but it’s helpful of course for people being new to Boot. Also: Thanks for the reminder to epxose actuator endpoints consciously.

Anyway, I myself found the explanation of how to use Spring Boot 2.3s new layered Jar with layered Docker images and WITHOUT the also possible Buildpack approach very usable.

Spring Reactive Neo4j

Rest? Not for the RESTFul!

I wouldn’t be happy having a book by Greg without a good chapter on REST. But of course, I get one: Greg evolves a standard REST controller (Just returning plain JSON) to support HATEOAS to support affordances, all in a reactive way and all accompanied by Spring REST docs test.

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A reader must do some deeper dive in some of the junction points afterwards, but they clearly have an idea what is possible.

Subliminal Messages

The most valuable piece of information for me here is the very nice explanation of Project Reactors publishOn and subscribeOn operators as well as the different schedulers revisited.

RSocket 🚀

This chapter makes me want use this link to start.spring.io, add our SDN/RX to it and jump into developing an RSocket proxy to reactive Neo4j repositories.

Especially on the topic of RSocket of which I don’t know yet much, Greg’s approach showing what is possible works very well for me. It gives you an idea and let’s you build from there on.

I personally will do some more reading afterwards on the backgrounds, though and this would of course also be my recommendation (the very same recommendation I have for people after many conference talks: Check the techs background and ideas, before you take conference driven development home and just go with the flow).

“Spring security is a beast”

Well, chapters about security: They are a can of worms. Writing them exposes the same problems that Spring Boot 1.x has had by making educated guesses of how Spring Security should be configured (they changed that later on, nowadays Spring Boot uses Spring Security’s defaults and backs of entirely when one configures a single aspect of it).

Anyway: There’s only so much depth an author can go, and so Greg shows only the basic concepts of Spring Security (for reactive applications).

I guess that in the real world, that chapter will leave the most open questions, for example how to integrate with Keycloak, Kerberos, LDAP or whatever.

As Greg writes about Spring Security’s OAuth2 support, my approach would be applying what you learn there and delegate everything to some IDAM, for example bespoke Keycloak (in contrast of running your own OAuth server based on a Spring Boot Spring Security application).

The main takeaway of that chapter for me is actually some good ideas what I can do once I have an authenticated user in the context.

Verdict

As I said already on twitter:

'Hacking with Spring Boot 2.3' by @gregturn is a very different book than mine, focusing more on what's possible and not that much on the internal workings of things. I like it, though. The book guides you through a lot of recommended best practices.

In depth review incoming.

— Michael Simons (@rotnroll666) July 3, 2020

Neo4j Spring Boot

Greg’s book gives a rock solid overview, both about core Spring and Spring Boot ideas as well as reactive programming paradigms. The later was super valuable for me.

If you want to go more into technical details – why auto configuration or Spring data repositories work – you need to look for a different resource, most possible the great documentations and talks from the Spring team (this one from Madhura) or my own talks or book (given you can read German).

While I work for Neo4j and I find the lack of Neo4j examples in Greg’s book disturbing, I’m gonna recommend it anyway to my colleagues in the field teams. After reading, they will have good ideas what’s in the box and where to dig further.

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