About Facets

The GemStone Facets™ object database for Java speeds development and enhances the performance of complex, distributed Java applications. Object-to-relational mapping can be one of the most time-consuming parts of developing and maintaining Java applications, and one of the biggest performance issues. Facets lets you transparently and securely persist active Java objects without object-to-relational mapping, making it easy to maintain a consistent, shared, transactional view of data across virtual and physical machines in distributed Java applications.

Facets™ integrates smoothly with application architectures based on JSPs/servlets, J2EE application servers, and Java messaging systems. Transparent persistence mechanisms, both native Java and JDO, improve performance by deferring object-to-relational data conversion overhead at run-time, provide recoverability for working data, and simplify development by reducing backend mapping for working data

• Faster data access for improved performance
• Reduced CPU load and hardware requirements
• Scalability to support more concurrent users with less hardware
• Distributed access to cached objects across computing nodes
• Enhances application server capacity
• Faster, easier application development