Does hibernate use spring?

Hibernate is a JPA implementation, while Spring Data JPA is a JPA Data Access Abstraction. Spring Data offers a solution to GenericDao custom implementations. With Spring Data, you may use Hibernate, Eclipse Link, or any other JPA provider.

Should I use spring or hibernate?

Hibernate is for ORM ( object relational mapping ) that is, make your objects persistent to a RDBMS. Spring goes further. It may be used also as a AOP, Dependency Injector, a Web Application and ORM among other things. So if you only need ORM, just use Hibernate.

Can I use Spring data JPA without hibernate?

JPA can be used without a JPA provider aka Hibernate, EclipseLink and so on only if the application server has already a JPA implementation. Most likely on the tutorials you have seen demos that were perfomed on such an application server.

Why we use Spring instead of Hibernate?

Spring framework is useful for transaction management, dependency injection; aspect-oriented programming for applications whereas Hibernate framework is useful for object-relational persistence, access data layers, and query retrieval services for enterprise-level applications.

Does hibernate make sense without spring?

Yes Hibernate make sense without Spring but it will make more sense with Spring 🙂 As you have already studied Hibernate, you know about it so let me tell you that Spring will make your life more easier mainly because of DI and it also have Hibernate support classes for doing common functions, transaction management.

Should I use Hibernate or spring JPA with Eclipse link?

When you use Hibernate/Eclipse Link you still have to write some boilerplate code. By using Spring JPA you can avoid that. The most important thing to note is Spring data uses Hibernate by Default due to Springboot’s Opinionated nature. You can change the default behavior if you would like.

Can JPA be used without JPA provider in Spring Boot?

When you run the following command in a Springboot project that uses Spring JPA (with default configuration), you will see Hibernate jars being used. JPA can be used without a JPA provider aka Hibernate, EclipseLink and so on only if the application server has already a JPA implementation.

What is the JPA implementation of hibernate?

Hibernate, and EclipseLink are a couple of its implementations. You have to specify the persistence provider (Hibernate, EclipseLink) in order to use the JPA implementation. The persistence providers have the implementation classes for JPA specifications. You can’t just use JPA, cause it is an API =), but there are plenty JPA implementations: