It helps map Java classes to databases, especially for ORM mapping with SQL-based databases, and it also automates SQL queries. Features like lazy loading, along with solid support and documentation, make it stand out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

XML-based mappings aren’t really something for newbies, and there’s also no NoSQL support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subash M.

Principal Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/19/2021

"Hibernate Easiest way to integrate your database in you Enterprise Application."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Hibernate?

Hibernate is best way to model database table into Java class and communicate with database. Support for almost every SQL database and could easily be migrated from one database to another database without any code change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

Query generated by Hibernate some times is not so much efficient and requires much more tuning to be done for better performance. Complete reporting query cannot be written Hibernate Query Language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate:

Hibernate is best ORM tools available for Java Developers. It is fully supported by many popular Java Frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Hibernate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Develop different Enterprise application using Hibernate. Rapid Application development. Hibernate take care of object mapping and auto query generation. Can be use to generate dynamic Queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/29/2022

"Best Open- Source ORM Tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Hibernate?

It has HQL which is independent of Database. Easy to implement and maintain. L1, L2 caches. Supports almost all Relational DB. Lazy loading support for fast retrieval. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

It takes a lot of effort to learn and implement. A bit slow as compared to the Traditional JDBC approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swapnil P.

Project Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/21/2022

"One of the best ORM tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Hibernate?

Its one of the best tool to connect the backend to the database, it is fast, it has many advantages over JDBC , it is faster, open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

Security issue, if you wanna build ur project highly secure go for JDBC instead of hibernate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad J.

Distinguished Engineer / Java Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/18/2021

"8+ years experience in Hibernate"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Hibernate?

In addition to its own API, Hibernate provides a full implementation of JPA specifications and standards. Different strategies for identity. Eager fetching strategy in a single query. Default first-level caching and optional second-level cache. Database schema-independent HQL. Criteria query for a user-friendly approach, useful and easy to alter your criteria in the future. Filter is also a main benefit when using Hibernate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

Low performance for complex queries. Low performance for batch processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate:

Hibernate generates dynamic queries, so if your database schema has complex relations, think twice before using HQL. Although Hibernate provides simple interaction to populate data from a table to your Java class, if you have many tables and entities in the database, the ORM engine may create very complex queries that will slow down the database and application. If you are using the Hibernate ORM, I recommend that you simplify the table structure. It could be more complex, and in some cases, it's impossible to fetch related data in one query. At this stage, I prefer to use native queries or stored procedures to mitigate the performance issue. One very important point: Hibernate needs expertise to implement it properly; otherwise, you will never achieve good performance with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Hibernate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Independent from database schema. Low risk of data loss. Object-oriented interface-based mapping on Java classes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/15/2021

"Hibernate blends with OOPs concepts in addition to providing its own benefits"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Hibernate?

Association, Cascading. OOPs developer, can easily translate DB design using hibernate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

Too many configurations. Small changes in DB will lead to many changes in hibernate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shishpal V.

Software Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/13/2021

"Hibernate: Interaction with DB made easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Hibernate?

easy interaction of the application with the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

As of now we are not facing any cons in Hibernate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate:

Just explore it and you will become a big fan of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Hibernate solving and how is that benefiting you?

In general when we want to interact with database we need to know SQL, our database may change and we might need to change SQL little bit. Hibernate lets us get rid of this problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SHISH P.

Research Assistant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/24/2021

"Best object-relational mapping tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Hibernate?

Some feature of hibernate are very cool. like cache , batch process and jpa implementation that makes it very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

As of now there is nothing to dislike. but some improvements are required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yu-Chun(Jim) C.

Lead application support analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/11/2021

"There are too many settings to set config and pojo"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Hibernate?

It covers all ORM aspects,so engineers can have a very clear insights only using object point of view to design system,especially use associations to replace 'relationship' Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

There are too many settings,and if I want to just add some columns,I need to reset it again,especially for mapping table and cascade,must be careful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pankaj B.

Chapter Lead - Engineering

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/18/2021

"Hibernate for Persistence"

4/5

What do you like best about Hibernate?

Hibernate is easier and can be plugged with any other framework spring / spring boot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

Complexity around entity relationships and debugging sometimes can be painful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate:

Hibernate is easy to use with any of your object oriented and frameworks including spring boot. Uniform patterns available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Hibernate solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using hibernate for all the micro services which are transaction based Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.