The best way to map a JPA and Hibernate many-to-many association with extra columns

Introduction For a simple many-to-many database relationship, you can use the @ManyToMany JPA annotation and, therefore, hide the join table. However, sometimes you need more than the two Foreign Key columns in the join table, and, for this purpose, you need to replace the @ManyToMany association with two bidirectional @OneToMany associations. Unlike unidirectional @OneToMany, the bidirectional relationship is the best way to map a one-to-many database relationship that requires a collection of Child elements on the parent side In this article, we are going to see how you can map a many-to-many… Read More

How to extract change data events from MySQL to Kafka using Debezium

Introduction As previously explained, CDC (Change Data Capture) is one of the best ways to interconnect an OLTP database system with other systems like Data Warehouse, Caches, Spark or Hadoop. Debezium is an open-source project developed by Red Hat which aims to simplify this process by allowing you to extract changes from various database systems (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and push them to Apache Kafka. In this article, we are going to see how you can extract events from MySQL binary logs using Debezium.

Book Review – High Performance MySQL (3rd edition)

Introduction I either have time for reading or writing, but not both. Now that the first edition of High-Performance Java Persistence is done, I can catch up on the many books I planned on reading but didn’t have time to do so. In this post, I’m going to review High Performance MySQL by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, and Vadim Tkachenkoa, which is a must-read book for anyone working with MySQL.

What’s new in JPA 2.2 – Stream the result of a Query execution

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how the JPA 2.2 Stream query results are supported by Hibernate and the caveats of using database cursors just to limit the amount of data that needs to be fetched.