The idea behind Taban is that an web application will simply use HTTP methods (GET, PUT and DELETE) to perform the usual CRUD operations required for persistence, but using JSON as the data exchange format. Taban is (will be) implemented as OSGi bundles and will call out to/depend on a number of OSGi services. db4o is to provide the default implementation of the database.

Bottlenecks to application scalability are a thorn in many architects' sides. Offloading the database and dumping the impedance mismatch with object caching is one answer, but that may require major changes to a company's data management environment. In an exclusive interview with DZone, Ari Zilka, the CTO and co-founder of Terracotta, Inc., explained how his company can solve scalability problems and ease the transition into the cloud.