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Hibernate is an object-relational mapping tool for the Java programming
language. It provides a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to
a relational database. To write a simple Hibernate application that connects to
Spanner, try theSpanner with Hibernate ORM codelab.
For more information about integrating databases with Hibernate, see the
following:
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