java - Spring boot Jpa: hibernate as default?

Question

if one uses the spring-boot-starter-data-jpa dependency and extends repository classes by org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository, is this 'plain jpa' or hibernate?

What is the difference?

Answer 1

JPA is an interface and Hibernate is the implementation. By default Spring uses Hibernate as the default JPA vendor. If you prefer, you can use any other reference implementation e.g. EclipseLink for the Java Persistence in your Spring project.