jOOQ vs Spring Data: What are the differences?

What is jOOQ? *A light database-mapping software library *. It implements the active record pattern. Its purpose is to be both relational and object oriented by providing a domain-specific language to construct queries from classes generated from a database schema.

What is Spring Data? Provides a consistent approach to data access – relational, non-relational, map-reduce, and beyond. It makes it easy to use data access technologies, relational and non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud-based data services. This is an umbrella project which contains many subprojects that are specific to a given database.

jOOQ and Spring Data can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.

Some of the features offered by jOOQ are:

• Typesafe SQL
• Source code generation
• Active Records

On the other hand, Spring Data provides the following key features:

• Powerful repository
• Custom object-mapping abstractions
• Dynamic query derivation

Spring Data is an open source tool with 58 GitHub stars and 62 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring Data's open source repository on GitHub.

Monkey Exchange, Hocelot, and apside are some of the popular companies that use Spring Data, whereas jOOQ is used by Picnic Technologies, Ataccama, and Khartec ltd. Spring Data has a broader approval, being mentioned in 15 company stacks & 37 developers stacks; compared to jOOQ, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.