Is there a way to tell what SQL capabilities Hibernate expects of a database? My thought right now is to go through all the docs and/or code to come up with a list, and it seems there must be an easier way ...

Thanks, Jim

I guess the Dialect object is what you're looking for. Hibernate uses this object. See http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... l-dialects

If you have a quality JDBC driver then the target database can work with Hibernate. All that is required from there is an appropriate dialect (as batmat has indicated). Most likely there is one already for the database of choice but if not then it is easy enough to create one (as there is lots of example to look at).