Hibernate 5 has updated dialects for various databases, and MySQL 8 has a special one of its own. Here's an example hibernate.cfg.xml for MySQL 8 for Hibernate 5 apps or newer.

Use the PHP extension for MySQL to access data from the MySQL database.

Hibernate MySQL persistence XML file As MySQL installations continue to migrate and evolve to newer versions, the online JPA and Hibernate 5 tutorials haven’t kept up with quite as much vigor. As a ...

MySQL is the second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP — Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development stack.