The objective of this course is to give an overview of BSC storage solutions with Hecuba. This platform allows to easily store and manipulate distributed data from object-oriented applications, enabling programmers to handle object persistence using the same classes they use in their programs, thus avoiding time consuming transformations between persistent and non-persistent data models. Also, Hecuba enables programmers to transparently manage distributed data, without worrying about its location. This is achieved by adding a minimal set of annotations in the classes.

Hecuba can work independently or integrated with the COMPSs programming model and runtime to facilitate parallelization of applications that handle persistent data, thus providing a comprehensive mechanism that enables the efficient usage of persistent storage solutions from distributed programming environments.

Hecuba platform offer a common interface to the application developer that facilitates using one solution or the other depending on the needs, without changing the application code. It also has additional features that allow the programmer to take advantage of their particularities.