Beginning Hibernate: For Hibernate 5

© Joseph B. Ottinger, Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter 2016

Joseph B. Ottinger, Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter, Beginning Hibernate, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2319-2_12

12. Leaving the Relational Database Behind: NoSQL

Joseph B. Ottinger¹ , Jeff Linwood² and Dave Minter³

(1)Youngsville, North Carolina, USA

(2)Austin, Texas, USA

(3)London, UK

Hibernate doesn’t limit you to using purely relational databases; Hibernate OGM¹ stands as a project that can carry an object model into the realm of the NoSQL datastore, allowing developers to use a familiar mechanism to access multiple types of storage.

Relational databases are tabular in nature; sets of data (“tables”) are homogenous and regular, often described in terms of rows and columns. Relationships are fixed; a table ...