6 Performance Pitfalls when using Spring Data JPA
Thanks to its ease of use, Spring Data JPA is an incredibly popular persistence framework. If developers have something to complain about, they usually criticize…
Database portability – Pitfalls when supporting multiple RDBMS with Hibernate
The JPA specification and Hibernate, as its most popular implementation, claim to provide database portability. That means you don’t need to change your persistence code…
The differences between Spring Data JPA’s save, saveAndFlush and saveAll methods
Spring Data JPA’s standard repositories provide a set of methods that handle common operations used by most persistence layers. That saves us a lot of…
How to use PostgreSQL’s JSONB data type with Hibernate
Most databases offer lots of proprietary features in addition to the known SQL standard. One example is PostgreSQL’s JSONB data type which allows you to…
Spring Data JDBC – Use a sequence to generate primary keys
By default, Spring Data JDBC expects the database to provide a primary key value for every new record. The easiest way to achieve that is…