Hibernate ORM enables developers to more easily write applications whose data outlives the application process.
As an Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework, Hibernate is concerned with data persistence as it applies to relational databases (via JDBC).
Hibernate ORM is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Can be easily used in any environment supporting JPA including Java SE applications, Java EE application servers, Enterprise OSGi containers, etc.
- Develop persistent classes following natural Object-oriented idioms including inheritance, polymorphism, association, composition, and the Java collections framework. Hibernate requires no interfaces or base classes for persistent classes and enables any class or data structure to be persistent.
- Good performance – supports lazy initialization, numerous fetching strategies and optimistic locking with automatic versioning and time stamping. Hibernate requires no special database tables or fields and generates much of the SQL at system initialization time instead of at runtime.
- Scalability – designed to work in an application server cluster and deliver a highly scalable architecture.
- Reliable.
- Highly configurable and extensible.
Website: hibernate.org
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Red Hat
License: GNU Lesser General Public License
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Related Software
| Java Object-Relational Mapping Software | |
|---|---|
| Hibernate ORM | Idiomatic persistence for Java and relational databases |
| MyBatis | Persistence framework with custom SQL and stored procedures |
| Apache Cayenne | Provides object-relational mapping (ORM) and remoting services |
| jOOQ | jOOQ Object Oriented Querying |
| DataNucleus | Supports JDO and JPA API's for persistence |
| Apache OpenJPA | Java persistence project |
| Ebean | Designed to be simpler to use and understand than JPA or JDO products |
| EclipseLink | Persistence solution addressing relational, XML, and database web services |
| Persism | Lightweight, auto discovery, autoconfiguration ORM |
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