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Hibernate vs MikroORM: What are the differences?
Developers describe Hibernate as "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. On the other hand, MikroORM is detailed as "TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns". TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.
Hibernate and MikroORM can be categorized as "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" tools.
MikroORM is an open source tool with 705 GitHub stars and 40 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MikroORM's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Hibernate
- Easy ORM21
- Easy transaction definition7
- Is integrated with spring jpa2
Pros of MikroORM
- Typescript5
- Supports both SQL and NoSQL4
- Powered by Unit of Work and Identity Map3
- Allows multiple ways to define entities3
- DRY Entities3
- Implicit Transactions2
- SQL layer built on top of Knex2
- EntityGenerator to reverse engineer existing database2
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Cons of Hibernate
- Can't control proxy associations when entity graph used3