Hibernate vs JPA vs Spring Data JPA
Hello everyone. In this article, we will see the differences between JPA, Hibernate, and Spring Data JPA.
ORM Frameworks
ORM Stands for Object-Relational Mapping that maps the data in the database to the Java Class which is called an Entity. Not only that, but ORM also preserves the relationship between the tables at the Entity level.
There are many ORM frameworks in the market and the famous ones for Java are
- Hibernate
- EclipseLink
- iBATIS
What is Hibernate?
As we all know, Hibernate is an ORM framework that sits between the application and the database. Before Hibernate, developers used to write queries using JDBC and retrieve the data and manually set it to the DTO Objects and send it to the Front End. This was time-consuming and painful.
So Hibernate is a framework in the ORM layer that maps the relational data to the Java Objects. It also provides an abstraction to the developers so that they don't need to worry about the data source. It also provides configuration options to configure the…
