1. A system, comprising: a plurality of servers; a data store comprising a persistent store of configuration information for the plurality of servers, wherein the persistent store is formatted in accordance with a data storage format; wherein one of the plurality of servers comprises: an in-memory representation of the configuration information formatted in accordance with an in-memory data format; a plurality of components configured to access the in-memory representation of the configuration information transparent of the data storage format to perform server configuration tasks; and a configuration Application Programming Interface (API) configured to store the in-memory representation of the configuration information to the persistent store in accordance with the data storage format of the persistent store.