diff --git a/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/pom.xml b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6549f8bad67b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <artifactId>hibernate-sessionfactory</artifactId>
+    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <name>hibernate-sessionfactory</name>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <artifactId>persistence-modules</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
+            <version>3.2.4</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.hibernate.orm</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
+            <version>6.4.4.Final</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
+            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
+            <version>2.2.224</version>
+            <scope>runtime</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
+            <version>3.2.4</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/main/java/com/baeldung/HibernateSessionFactoryDemoApplication.java b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/main/java/com/baeldung/HibernateSessionFactoryDemoApplication.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..993036ab3c39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/main/java/com/baeldung/HibernateSessionFactoryDemoApplication.java
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.data.jpa.JpaRepositoriesAutoConfiguration;
+
+@SpringBootApplication(
+        exclude = {
+                HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class,
+                JpaRepositoriesAutoConfiguration.class
+        }
+)
+@ComponentScan(basePackages="com.baeldung")
+public class HibernateSessionFactoryDemoApplication {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        SpringApplication.run(HibernateSessionFactoryDemoApplication.class, args);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/main/java/com/baeldung/config/HibernateConfig.java b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/main/java/com/baeldung/config/HibernateConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..065d0b59535e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/main/java/com/baeldung/config/HibernateConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package com.baeldung.config;
+
+import javax.sql.DataSource;
+import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
+import org.hibernate.boot.Metadata;
+import org.hibernate.boot.MetadataSources;
+import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistry;
+import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistryBuilder;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+@Configuration
+public class HibernateConfig {
+
+    @Bean
+    SessionFactory sessionFactory(DataSource dataSource) {
+        StandardServiceRegistry registry =
+                new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder()
+                        .applySetting("hibernate.connection.datasource", dataSource)
+                        .applySetting("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "create-drop")
+                        .applySetting("hibernate.show_sql", true)
+                        .build();
+
+        MetadataSources sources =
+                new MetadataSources(registry);
+
+        return sources.buildMetadata().buildSessionFactory();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/main/resources/application.properties b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/main/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..351b92f8cfff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+spring.application.name=Hibernate SessionFactory Demo
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diff --git a/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/test/java/com/baeldung/HibernateSessionFactoryDemoApplicationTests.java b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/test/java/com/baeldung/HibernateSessionFactoryDemoApplicationTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5a4e2b643e67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/test/java/com/baeldung/HibernateSessionFactoryDemoApplicationTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+
+@SpringBootTest
+class HibernateSessionFactoryDemoApplicationTests {
+
+    @Test
+    void contextLoads() {
+    }
+
+}
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diff --git a/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/test/java/com/baeldung/SessionFactoryUnitTest.java b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/test/java/com/baeldung/SessionFactoryUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dc5b07d038f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/persistence-modules/hibernate-sessionfactory/src/test/java/com/baeldung/SessionFactoryUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+import org.hibernate.Session;
+import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+
+@SpringBootTest
+public class SessionFactoryUnitTest {
+
+    @Autowired
+    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;
+
+    @Test
+    void givenSessionFactory_whenOpeningSession_thenSessionIsCreated() {
+
+        try (Session session = sessionFactory.openSession()) {
+            assertNotNull(session);
+        }
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/persistence-modules/pom.xml b/persistence-modules/pom.xml
index 6d1a4325eb6c..01cb3da41aec 100644
--- a/persistence-modules/pom.xml
+++ b/persistence-modules/pom.xml
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@
         <module>spring-boot-persistence-5</module>
         <module>hibernate-annotations-2</module>
         <module>hibernate-reactive</module>
+        <module>hibernate-sessionfactory</module>
         <module>spring-data-envers</module>
         <module>spring-persistence-simple</module>
     </modules>