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Spring Data JPA & PostgreSQL from scratch. Learn JPA & Spring Boot using Rest API project with all PostgreSQL details

Spring Data JPA is a part of the larger Spring Data project, which aims to simplify data access and manipulation in Spring-based applications. Specifically, Spring Data JPA provides a high-level, abstracted approach to working with relational databases using the Java Persistence API

In the world of software development, simplification is often the key to productivity and efficiency. Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA are two powerful tools in the Spring Framework ecosystem that make it easier to develop robust and maintainable Java applications, especially when it comes to working with databases.

Spring Boot: The Foundation of Modern Java Applications

Spring Boot is a part of the Spring Framework that is designed to simplify the process of building production-ready applications. It achieves this by providing a set of conventions and tools to eliminate the need for extensive configuration, boilerplate code, and a steep learning curve .

Spring Boot embraces the concept of "opinionated defaults" . It comes with predefined configurations for common scenarios, such as database connections, web servers, and templating engines . This allows developers to get started quickly without having to make countless decisions .

One of the standout features of Spring Boot is its auto-configuration. It automatically configures components based on the dependencies you include in your project. If you're using Spring Data JPA, Spring Boot will configure your data source, entity manager, and transaction management with sensible defaults.

Spring Boot includes support for embedded servers like Tomcat, Jetty, and Undertow . You don't need to deploy your application to an external server; Spring Boot packages the server with your application, making it easy to run and deploy.

Spring Data JPA, a part of the Spring Data project, simplifies database access in Java applications, specifically when working with relational databases using the Java Persistence API (JPA) .

Postgresql is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that uses and extends the SQL language combined with many features that safely store and scale the most complicated data workloads. The origins of Postgresql date back to 1986 as part of the POSTGRES project at the University of California at Berkeley and has more than 30 years of active development on the core platform.

PostgreSQL, like other relational and object-oriented databases, let non-IT specialists query databases. PostgreSQL is open-source, fault-tolerant, and supports location-based services.

Known for reliability, scalability, and robustness, PostgreSQL is widely used by organizations of all sizes for managing large and complex databases. This makes it well-suited for high-performance and mission-critical applications such as data warehousing, analytics, geospatial applications, and web services.

PostrgeSQL comes with many features aimed to help developers build applications, administrators to protect data integrity and build fault-tolerant environments, and help you manage your data no matter how big or small the dataset. In addition to being free and open source, PostgreSQL is highly extensible. For example, you can define your own data types, build out custom functions, even write code from different programming languages without recompiling your database.