1. An article comprising a machine-readable medium tangibly embodying instructions that when performed by one or more machines result in operations comprising: receiving a query of a meta-object facility repository, the repository comprising transient data being modified or processed in memory and persisted data; and executing portions of the received query on partitions associated with the persisted data and executing other portions of the received query on partitions of the repository associated with the transient data to generate a query result set.