How does JPA orphanRemoval=true differ from the ON DELETE CASCADE DML clause

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orphanRemoval has nothing to do with ON DELETE CASCADE.

orphanRemoval is an entirely ORM-specific thing. It marks “child” entity to be removed when it’s no longer referenced from the “parent” entity, e.g. when you remove the child entity from the corresponding collection of the parent entity.

ON DELETE CASCADE is a database-specific thing, it deletes the “child” row in the database when the “parent” row is deleted.

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