Lazy loading in Hibernate and JPA means fetching and loading the data, only when it is needed, from a persistent storage like a database. Lazy loading improves the performance of data fetching and ...

Hibernate and JPA compared During my recent update to TheServerSide’s JDBC definition, I researched commonly queried terms related to the database API and was surprised by just how many people are ...

Looking back on 2011, I'm struck by two larger trends in the overall database marketplace. First, most energy and excitement (but not much forward motion) seems to be coming from the NoSQL space. And ...