it might be theoretical in hibernate, but sqlalchemy does a TON of this stuff as an example: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/blob/master/lib/sqlalchemy/di

it might be theoretical in hibernate, but sqlalchemy does a TON of this stuff as an example: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/blob/master/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/pyodbc.py#L48 https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/blob/master/lib/sqlalch... heaps of this kind of thing are nicely dotted around the code so you don’t have to deal with weird driver quirks, maps “Text” column type to whatever it needs to be in your given database to have an unbounded text blob id say that’s far more than theoretical EDIT: typo EDIT 2: also, on DB specific features, SQLA supports a bunch (not all). eg: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/blob/master/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/hstore.py https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/blob/master/lib/sqlalch...