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Asked: 2026-05-30T17:02:25+00:00

(Only managed to find one other question on this – Object persistence strategy for

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(Only managed to find one other question on this – Object persistence strategy for desktop application)

I have a basic Java Swing application – which needs to access / persist a few thousand POJOs. I may need to run basic queries on these.

Originally I looked at JPA-Hibernate + HSQLDB, but this slows app start-up time and I figured it was overkill for my query requirements.

I simplified my data model and started looking at Document DBs – mongodb is great but it isnt really suited for non-server environments; starting up and shutting down the mongod process from Java (using ProcessBuilder) is fiddly and I really want an embedded solution.

I really want a fast, lightweight persistence tool with basic query functions that can be embedded in a Java app.

Are these the only options?

Can anyone offer any other advice / suggestions? At what point would serializing a large List of POJO’s start to really hurt performance?

Thanks

edit: Just found this post – https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2825491/are-there-any-embeddable-document-database-engines-for-java-something-similar-t recommending Orient – http://code.google.com/p/orient/

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  1. Editorial Team

    I recently used db4o (http://www.db4o.com/) as a data store for a standalone desktop application. Its an object data base which can be run in embedded mode w/o a server running in the background.

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