Persistence in Confluence

There are a number of persistence APIs in Confluence. Listed below are the most common ones. You should use the one that best fits your needs.

• Active Objects—custom database tables, most versatile
• PluginSettingsFactory—a key-value store for primitive types with global namespaces
• SpacePropertyService—store JSON properties associated with a space
• UserPreferencesAccessor—a key-value store for primitive types associated with a user
• ContentPropertyService—store JSON properties associated with a content entity object
• ContentPropertyManager—a key-value store for Strings associated with a content entity object
• [Deprecated and read-only from 10.0 (developer notes)] Bandana—XML-powered global key-value store for Java objects