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Hibernate vs DBFlow: What are the differences?
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; DBFlow: *Simple ORM android database library *. It is fast, efficient, and feature-rich Kotlin database library built on SQLite for Android. It utilizes annotation processing to generate SQLite boilerplate for you and provides a powerful SQLite query language that makes using SQLite a joy.
Hibernate and DBFlow can be categorized as "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" tools.
DBFlow is an open source tool with 4.67K GitHub stars and 597 GitHub forks. Here's a link to DBFlow's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of DBFlow
- SQLite1
- Easy to use1
- Open Source1
Pros of Hibernate
- Easy ORM22
- Easy transaction definition8
- Is integrated with spring jpa3
- Open Source1
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Cons of DBFlow
- Doesn't support anything other than SQLite1
Cons of Hibernate
- Can't control proxy associations when entity graph used3