* Built-in Lazy loading, and Lazy querying. * Open source for noncommercial use and available on Maven Central * No need to manage inverse relationship references before saving or deleting an entity like you would with JPA/Hibernate * High throughput and thread safe concurrency. * Built-in life-cycle events such as onPersist, onDelete, OnCreate, etc. * Distributed caching, Distributed Locking, Distributed Atomic Variables, and Distributed File System Management * Remote RESTful Web Service API that can be accessed from any language with JSON.

* Elastic and linear scalability for a growing data and user base. * Data distribution and replication for performance and fault tolerance. * Multi-datacenter high availability and hot backups. * Support for ACID and eventual consistency. * Support for various storage backends: - Apache Cassandra - Apache HBase - Oracle BerkeleyDB * Support for global graph data analytics, reporting, and ETL * Support for geo, numeric range, and full-text search via ElasticSearch, Solr, and Lucene * Native integration with the TinkerPop graph stack