You can choose several data access frameworks when building Java enterprise applications that work with relational databases. But what about big data? This hands-on introduction shows you how Spring Data makes it relatively easy to build applications across a wide range of new data access technologies such as NoSQL and Hadoop. Through several sample projects, you?ll learn how Spring Data provides a consistent programming model that retains NoSQL-specific features and capabilities, and helps you develop Hadoop applications across a wide range of use-cases such as data analysis, event stream processing, and workflow. You?ll also discover the features Spring Data adds to Spring?s existing JPA and JDBC support for writing RDBMS-based data access layers. * Learn about Spring?s template helper classes to simplify the use of database-specific functionality * Explore Spring Data?s repository abstraction and advanced query functionality * Use Spring Data with Redis (key/value store), HBase (column-family), MongoDB (document database), and Neo4j (graph database) * Discover the GemFire distributed data grid solution * Export Spring Data JPA-managed entities to the Web as RESTful web services * Simplify the development of HBase applications, using a lightweight object-mapping framework * Build example big-data pipelines with Spring Batch and Spring Integration