We are excited to announce the release of Hibernate ORM 6.0 Alpha4.
The main design goal for 6.0 is to improve even more Hibernate’s through-put performance. High-load performance
testing showed that Hibernate’s approach of reading values from ResultSet by name to be its most limiting factor in
scaling through-put. At its most basic, 6.0 is all about changing from its old strategy of read-by-name to
read-by-position. But that simple goal has a lot of ramifications.
We have come really far, but still it is an Alpha, so there is still plenty more to do.
Load-by-key
All load-by-key operations are now executed using the new SQL AST and JdbcOperation approach. This includes:
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Load an entity by id (
Session#byId,Session#get,Session#load,Session#lock, etc) -
Load an entity by multiple-ids (
Session#byMultipleIds) -
Load an entity by natural-id
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Load an entity by unique-key
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Fetching a collection
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Initializing a collection
Along with Query support, all loading operations are now done using this SQL AST approach. This covers all fetching strategies, as well, including SELECT (N+1), JOIN, BATCH, SUBSELECT.
Avoid rendering unnecessary joins
When Hibernate knows it needs to reference an entity in the from-clause it renders joins for all of the tables related to that entity including any joined-subclass tables and secondary tables. However, sometimes not all of these tables need to be rendered into the SQL.
Addressing this in versions prior to 6.x are very difficult and different in specific cases. Regardless work has been done on top of 5.x under HHH-12895, HHH-12993, and others.
6.0 and its SQL AST however makes this much easier to apply in a generalized way. Alpha4 offers the inital work on this support.
@OrderBy support
Maps and Sets that provide a custom @OrderBy SQL fragment are now supported.
This is accomplished through an Antlr v4 based grammar to parse the ordering SQL fragment and applying the indicated sort specifications into the SQL AST being built.
More information
See the user guide and migration guide.
Also check out the release page.
To get in touch, use the usual channels as discussed on https://hibernate.org/community/
