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K. S. P. Reddy, S. UpadhyayulaBeginning Spring Boot 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8792-7_5

5. Working with JDBC

Siva Prasad Reddy Katamreddy1   and Sai Subramanyam Upadhyayula2
(1)
Hyderabad, India
(2)
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 

Data persistence is a crucial part of software systems. Most software applications use relational databases as datastores, but recently NoSQL data stores like MongoDB, Redis, and Cassandra are getting popular. Java provides the JDBC API to talk to the database, but it is a low-level API that requires lots of boilerplate coding. The JavaEE platform provides the Java Persistence API (JPA) specification, an object-relational mapping ...

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