Hibernate ORM

Hibernate ORM is an object/relational mapping library for Java. It maps Java classes to relational database tables, and the project describes it as an implementation of the Jakarta Persistence specification. It is a library that a Java application includes, so the application or the framework it runs under is the process that runs it.

The project is published on Maven Central as hibernate-core, and the README links its documentation on the project website. The project’s site names a list of databases it tests every day, and a separate community dialects module adds further databases.

The site names the Hibernate project as the copyright holder, and the project states that it is part of the Commonhaus Foundation.

Worth knowing

Hibernate works in Java SE standalone applications, in EE servers such as WildFly and in containers such as Quarkus, and the project lists those environments on its site. The MongoDB extension and the Google Spanner dialect are third-party projects.