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Hibernate vs SQLAlchemy: What are the differences?

What is Hibernate? 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.

What is SQLAlchemy? The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper. SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

Hibernate and SQLAlchemy can be primarily classified as "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" tools.

SQLAlchemy is an open source tool with 3.34K GitHub stars and 888 GitHub forks. Here's a link to SQLAlchemy's open source repository on GitHub.

Bodybuilding.com, StyleShare Inc., and Zola are some of the popular companies that use Hibernate, whereas SQLAlchemy is used by WakaTime, YOU-app, and MonkeyLearn. Hibernate has a broader approval, being mentioned in 87 company stacks & 74 developers stacks; compared to SQLAlchemy, which is listed in 34 company stacks and 29 developer stacks.

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Pros of Hibernate
Pros of SQLAlchemy
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    Easy ORM
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    Easy transaction definition
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    Is integrated with spring jpa
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    Open Source

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Cons of Hibernate
Cons of SQLAlchemy
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    Can't control proxy associations when entity graph used
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    Documentation

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What is Hibernate?

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

What is SQLAlchemy?

SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

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MyBatis
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.
Spring
A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.
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.
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.
Dapper
It is an object-relational mapping product for the Microsoft.NET platform: it provides a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database.
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