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 *APIs which handle the persistence of objects.*
 
+* [Apache Cayenne](http://cayenne.apache.org/) - Provides clean, static API for data access. Also includes GUI Modeler for working with database mappings, DB reverse engineering and generation.
 * [Ebean](http://ebean-orm.github.io/) - Provides simple and fast data access.
 * [EclipseLink](https://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/) - Supports a number of persistence standards: JPA, JAXB, JCA and SDO.
 * [Hibernate](http://hibernate.org/orm/) - Robust and widely used with an active community.