Why we are using Hibernate?

Why we are using Hibernate instead of JDBC where JDBC is less time taking than Hibernate?
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GAYATRI

  • Mar 13th, 2015
 

We don't need to know about sql queries no need to write all the cod for connecting database.

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Jagadeesh

  • Mar 21st, 2015
 

No need of creating the tables manually, by using the annotations tables will get created automatically. Objects mapping can be done with ease.

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Kaushal

  • Apr 8th, 2015
 

Hibernate is a syntactic sugar coating over JDBC that helps you focus only on your logic to tackle the problem while taking care of rest of the things like registering drivers, exception handling and all the other stuff. Also it shields your code from being dependent on the type of Database.

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sherry

  • Jul 14th, 2015
 

Industry research results: Hibernate adds < 10% performance overhead compared to pure JDBC calls. Very tough to achieve once the business to DAO mappings, custom caching etc. is self-written for the project. Further, In many projects, Over a long term, most of the boilerplate code standardized by hibernate will be used to decorate the JDBC DAO layers to achieve the required functionality.

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hari krishna

  • Aug 9th, 2017
 

We do not want to write the bowler plate logic when we are using hibernate, hibernate supports lazy loading where as JDBC does not support global transactions where as hibernate supports global transactions

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