The mapping between Java objects and a relational database is achieved with the help of Java language metadata annotations and/or XML deployment descriptors (usually XML descriptors are optional).

Roberto Zicari, from ODBMS.org, collected interviews and stories from several users of Object/Relational mapping technologies. The main point of the cases was around "impedance mismatch" between ...

TierDeveloper 5.1 is an object-to-relational mapping and code-generation tool that maps objects to relational tables, generates .Net components for VB.Net and C#, and enables embedding of SQL ...

Skipping an object-to-relational mapping step as well as the ability to react with quick updates were major factors in choosing Matisse. "Matisse is the database underpinning the entire system," he ...

It supports familiar concepts like replication, sharding, indexing and map/reduce. The MongoDB open source community is very large and active.

OK, I'm coming up soon on a few small to medium intranet/web site projects where we want to branch out from what we've been using to do object-relational mapping (don't ask; it sucks and you've ...

A challenge when developing applications that use object-relational mapping (ORM) like Hibernate and JPA, a common approach is to list each @Entity decorated Java class programmatically either in the ...

With so many benefits and drawbacks to using either the Hibernate Session or the JPA EntityManager for performing object relational mapping, it is no wonder why enterprise architects have such a ...