7/31/22, 7:26 PM The reactive API for Hibernate ORM.

- Hibernate Reactive

Hibernate Reactive
The reactive API for Hibernate ORM.
Getting
started

Latest
stable (1.1)

Add a reactive API to Hibernate ORM, supporting non-blocking database

drivers and a reactive style of interaction with the database.

Reactive Object/Relational Mapping

Hibernate Reactive is a reactive API for Hibernate ORM, supporting non-
blocking database drivers and a reactive style of interaction with the
database.

Hibernate Reactive is intended for use in a reactive programming

environment like Vert.x or Quarkus, where interaction with the database
should occur in a non-blocking fashion. Persistence operations are
orchestrated via the construction of a reactive stream rather than via direct
invocation of synchronous functions in procedural Java code.

JDBC, JPA and Hibernate ORM use blocking IO for interaction with the
database, and are therefore not appropriate for use in a reactive
environment. Hibernate Reactive is a feature rich ORM implementation
designed to take advantage of non-blocking database clients.

Compatibility
Hibernate Reactive requires:

Java 11,

Hibernate ORM 5.6, and

the Vert.x 4.2 reactive database client for your database.

It works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Db2, SQL Server, Oracle and
CockroachDB.

https://hibernate.org/reactive/ 1/2
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Getting Started
The Introduction to Hibernate Reactive covers everything you need to
know to get started, including:

setting up a project that uses Hibernate Reactive and the Vert.x

reactive SQL client for your database,

configuring Hibernate Reactive to access your database,

writing Java code to define the entities of your data model,

writing reactive data access code using a reactive session, and

tuning the performance of your program.

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