How can i force hibernate to save ipBytes as BINARY type?

[vlad]

Check out this answer:

How to map byte[] to jdbc BINARY type?

It’s actually very simple. Since version 2.10.1, you can use the MySQLBinaryType from the Hibernate Types project, so your mapping looks like this: @Entity @TypeDef( typeClass = MySQLBinaryType.class, defaultForType = byte[].class ) public class Post { @Id @GeneratedValue private Long id; private String title; @Column private byte[] image; ... } Here you can see an example on GitHub that works like a charm.