For one, Spring offers "Spring Data JDBC", where the Spring Data repositories that people like so much can be implemented with raw JDBC rather than using a full

For one, Spring offers "Spring Data JDBC", where the Spring Data repositories that people like so much can be implemented with raw JDBC rather than using a full ORM. Beyond that, there is JDBI (another thin wrapper around raw SQL), jOOQ, and MyBatis. And then a number of other options like Apache Cayenne that are interesting but never really caught on.