Advantages of hibernates

Hibernate significantly reduce development

Hibernate’s design goal is to relieve the developer from 95% of common data persistence related programming

It eliminates the need for manual data processing using SQL and JDBC

Friends Hibernate does not hide the power of SQL from you and guarantees that your investment in relational technology and knowledge is as valid as always.

Hibernate supports Inheritance, Associations, Collections

In hibernate if we save the derived class object, then its base class object will also be stored into the database, it means hibernate supporting inheritance

Hibernate supports relationships like One-To-Many, One-To-One, Many-To-Many-to-Many, Many-To-One.

This will also supports collections like List, Set, Map (Only new collections)

In JDBC all exceptions are checked exceptions, so we must write code in try, catch and throws, but in hibernate we only have Un-checked exceptions, so no need to write try, catch, or no need to write throws. Actually in hibernate we have the translator which converts checked to Un-checked

Hibernate has capability to generate primary keys automatically while we are storing the records into database.

Hibernate has its own query language, i.e. hibernate query language which is database

independent.

So if we change the database, then also our application will works as HQL is database independent HQL contains database independent commands

While we are inserting any record, if we don’t have any particular table in the database, JDBC will rises an error like “View not exist”, and throws exception, but in case of hibernate, if it not found any table in the database this will create the table for us

Hibernate supports caching mechanism by this, the number of round trips between an application and the database will be reduced, by using this caching technique an application performance will be increased automatically.

Hibernate supports annotations, apart from XML

Hibernate provided Dialect classes, so we no need to write sql queries in hibernate, instead we use the methods provided by that API.

Getting pagination in hibernate is quite simple.