Jakarta NoSQL: Why JPA Is Not Enough for the AI Era (opens in new tab)

The most effective way to present this idea is to begin with the challenge architects face: AI has transformed the persistence landscape. Enterprise applications were once built almost exclusively on relational databases, making JPA a keystone of Jakarta EE. Today, modern systems use a mix of relational databases, document stores, caches, graph engines, and increasingly, vector databases that support semantic search, (RAG), and AI-powered applications. Polyglot persistence is now the industry...