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Diesel vs Hibernate ORM

No clear leader: Hibernate ORM (67.1) and Diesel (62.1) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Diesel62
Hibernate ORM67
Score
vioscaleAI score
Diesel62 / 100medium · 50%
Hibernate ORM67 / 100low · 49%
Pricing
Free tier
Diesel✓
Hibernate ORM✓
Model
Dieselopen_source
Hibernate ORMcommercial
Price level
Dieselfree
Hibernate ORMfree
Transparent
Diesel–
Hibernate ORM✓
Integrations
Count
Diesel5
Hibernate ORM13
Security
Scorecard
Diesel6.9
Hibernate ORM7.2
Vulnerabilities
Adoption
Dependent repos
Diesel3,691
Hibernate ORM145,451
Github stars
Diesel14,201
Hibernate ORM6,472
Activity
Commits last 30d
Diesel100
Hibernate ORM100
Release
Cadence days
Diesel32
Hibernate ORM1
History
Diesel20 items
Hibernate ORM20 items
License
Spdx
DieselApache-2.0
Hibernate ORMApache-2.0
Language
Primary
DieselRust
Hibernate ORMJava
Market
Availability
Diesel–
Hibernate ORMAvailable worldwide
Content
Faq
Diesel3 items
Hibernate ORM5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for orm & database tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Type-safe queries
Diesel✓
Hibernate ORM✓
Schema migrations
Diesel✓
Hibernate ORM✓
Relations / joins API
Diesel✓
Hibernate ORM✓
Languages
DieselRust
Hibernate ORMJava
Modelling
Schema-first modelling
Diesel✓
Hibernate ORM-
Flexibility
Raw SQL escape hatch
Diesel✓
Hibernate ORM✓
Portability
Multiple database backends
Diesel✓
Hibernate ORM✓
Ops
Connection pooling
Diesel✓
Hibernate ORM✓
DX
Data browser / studio
Diesel✗
Hibernate ORM-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Diesel

A Rust library that provides type-safe database access with compile-time verification, featuring both a query builder API and raw SQL support across multiple database systems including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

Independently observed

Hibernate ORM

Hibernate enables Java applications to interact with relational databases through object-oriented abstractions with support for complex queries, temporal data handling, audit logging, and multi-tenant deployments, while preserving SQL expressivity and performance.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Diesel

Open source
as of verify ↗

Hibernate ORM

Open source

Free and open source under Apache License 2.0

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Deployment
Self-hosted
Diesel✓
Hibernate ORM✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Diesel

5 total
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • Oracle
  • Firebird
Independently observed

Hibernate ORM

22 total
  • Jakarta Persistence
  • Jakarta Data
  • Jakarta Query
  • Bean Validation
  • Jakarta Validation
  • Java EE
  • Jakarta EE
  • Vert.x
  • MongoDB Extension
  • Apache Lucene
  • Elasticsearch
  • OpenSearch
  • Quarkus
  • WildFly
  • Red Hat EAP
  • Spring Boot
  • MongoDB
  • Hibernate Validator
  • Hibernate Search
  • Hibernate Reactive
  • Hibernate Data Repositories
  • Hibernate NoSQL
Independently observed
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