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  5. Hibernate vs Sugar ORM

Hibernate vs Sugar ORM

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Overview

Hibernate
Hibernate
Stacks1.8K
Followers1.2K
Votes34
GitHub Stars0
Forks0
Sugar ORM
Sugar ORM
Stacks3
Followers11
Votes0
GitHub Stars2.6K
Forks577

Hibernate vs Sugar ORM: What are the differences?

What is Hibernate? Idiomatic persistence for Java and relational databases. Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper.

What is Sugar ORM? A database persistence library that provides a simple and concise way to integrate your application models into SQLite. It is a database persistence library that provides a simple and concise way to integrate your application models into SQLite. It eliminates writing SQL queries to interact with SQLite db.

Hibernate and Sugar ORM can be primarily classified as "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" tools.

Sugar ORM is an open source tool with 2.61K GitHub stars and 614 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sugar ORM's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Hibernate
Hibernate
Sugar ORM
Sugar ORM

Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper.

It is a database persistence library that provides a simple and concise way to integrate your application models into SQLite. It eliminates writing SQL queries to interact with SQLite db.

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A simple, concise, and clean integration process with minimal configuration; Automatic table and column naming through reflection; Support for migrations between different schema versions
Statistics
GitHub Stars
0
GitHub Stars
2.6K
GitHub Forks
0
GitHub Forks
577
Stacks
1.8K
Stacks
3
Followers
1.2K
Followers
11
Votes
34
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 22
    Easy ORM
  • 8
    Easy transaction definition
  • 3
    Is integrated with spring jpa
  • 1
    Open Source
Cons
  • 3
    Can't control proxy associations when entity graph used
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Integrations
Java
Java
SQLite
SQLite
Android OS
Android OS

What are some alternatives to Hibernate, Sugar ORM?

Sequelize

Sequelize

Sequelize is a promise-based ORM for Node.js and io.js. It supports the dialects PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and MSSQL and features solid transaction support, relations, read replication and more.

Prisma

Prisma

Prisma is an open-source database toolkit. It replaces traditional ORMs and makes database access easy with an auto-generated query builder for TypeScript & Node.js.

Doctrine 2

Doctrine 2

Doctrine 2 sits on top of a powerful database abstraction layer (DBAL). One of its key features is the option to write database queries in a proprietary object oriented SQL dialect called Doctrine Query Language (DQL), inspired by Hibernates HQL.

MikroORM

MikroORM

TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.

Entity Framework

Entity Framework

It is an object-relational mapper that enables .NET developers to work with relational data using domain-specific objects. It eliminates the need for most of the data-access code that developers usually need to write.

peewee

peewee

A small, expressive orm, written in python (2.6+, 3.2+), with built-in support for sqlite, mysql and postgresql and special extensions like hstore.

MyBatis

MyBatis

It is a first class persistence framework with support for custom SQL, stored procedures and advanced mappings. It eliminates almost all of the JDBC code and manual setting of parameters and retrieval of results. It can use simple XML or Annotations for configuration and map primitives, Map interfaces and Java POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) to database records.

Entity Framework Core

Entity Framework Core

It is a lightweight, extensible, open source and cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology. It can serve as an object-relational mapper (O/RM), enabling .NET developers to work with a database using .NET objects, and eliminating the need for most of the data-access code they usually need to write.

SQLAlchemy

SQLAlchemy

SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

Dapper

Dapper

It is an object-relational mapping product for the Microsoft.NET platform: it provides a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database.

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