MyBatis vs NHibernate

Overview

NHibernate

Stacks116

Followers92

Votes5

GitHub Stars2.2K

Forks930

MyBatis

Stacks279

Followers178

Votes17

GitHub Stars20.3K

Forks13.0K

MyBatis vs NHibernate: What are the differences?

Developers describe MyBatis as "SQL Mapper Framework for Java". 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. On the other hand, NHibernate is detailed as "The object-relational mapper for .NET". It is a mature, open source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework. It's actively developed, fully featured and used in thousands of successful projects.

MyBatis belongs to "Java Tools" category of the tech stack, while NHibernate can be primarily classified under "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)".

MyBatis and NHibernate are both open source tools. It seems that MyBatis with 11.5K GitHub stars and 7.26K forks on GitHub has more adoption than NHibernate with 1.64K GitHub stars and 825 GitHub forks.

Jobsrepublic, Luxottica Retail, and Consignet are some of the popular companies that use MyBatis, whereas NHibernate is used by Pinnacle Sports, ProProcure, and CRM Solutions. MyBatis has a broader approval, being mentioned in 6 company stacks & 16 developers stacks; compared to NHibernate, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

NHibernate	MyBatis
It is a mature, open source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework. It's actively developed, fully featured and used in thousands of successful projects.	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.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 2.2K	GitHub Stars 20.3K
GitHub Forks 930	GitHub Forks 13.0K
Stacks 116	Stacks 279
Followers 92	Followers 178
Votes 5	Votes 17
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 DDD friendly	Pros 6 Easy to use 3 Integrated with Spring 3 Extensions 3 Flexible 2 Data-first support
Integrations
.NET Visual Studio C#	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to NHibernate, MyBatis?

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.

Quarkus

It tailors your application for GraalVM and HotSpot. Amazingly fast boot time, incredibly low RSS memory (not just heap size!) offering near instant scale up and high density memory utilization in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. We use a technique we call compile time boot.

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.

Hibernate

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

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

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

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

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.

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.