> Is data access in such a project purely from in-memory sources? yes. > I suspect most people shun it because database access- especially if the DB itself is

> Is data access in such a project purely from in-memory sources? yes. > I suspect most people shun it because database access- especially if the DB itself is over the network on a different machine- already slow enough that ZGC / zero allocation won't be noticed. Database access, if you're talking network latency query/transaction processing time, is essentially irrespective of the language being used, so that's not a good reason to shun Java as a language/rutime anyway.