Why Hibernate and not JDBC ?

Posted in: Hibernate

• JDBC maps Java classes to database tables (and from Java data types to SQL data types)
• Hibernate automatically generates the SQL queries.
• Hibernate provides data query and retrieval facilities and can significantly reduce development time otherwise spent with manual data handling in SQL and JDBC.
• Makes an application portable to all SQL databases.
• Hibernate APIs are very simple to learn and use.
• Focus on domain object modeling.
• Performance.
  • High performance object caching.
  • Configurable materialization strategies.
  ● Sophisticated query facilities
  • Hibernate Query Language (HQL)
  • Criteria API and Query by Criteria
  • Query by Example.

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