Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science (2006)

Re:Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Scie... by _pmf_ on Thursday February 27, 2014 @01:27AM (#7310703)

Do you know of any Java-OR mappers in the same spirit?

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Re:Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Scie... by teacup50 on Thursday February 27, 2014 @01:51AM (#7310747)

Java: http://www.jooq.org/

Scala: http://slick.typesafe.com/

They also have the benefit of being fully type-safe across query projections.

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Re:Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Scie... by lukaseder on Thursday February 27, 2014 @12:28PM (#7313469)

I don't think Slick can be considered a very SQL-centric API. While the Slick folks embrace the relational model, they certainly do not embrace the SQL language. Just as with LINQ, this can be desirable if you want to reason about collections in a more general sense. On the other hand, the SQL standard has gone far beyond the "occasional" OUTER JOIN that can turn out to be a true challenge to Slick.

In other words, SQL has never been purely relational. It is a beast of its own.

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