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Subash M

August 6, 2025 Source: G2.com

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

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.

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.

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate?

Hibernate is best ORM tools available for Java Developers. It is fully supported by many popular Java Frameworks.

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.

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Verified User in Retail

April 29, 2022 Source: G2.com

Best Open- Source ORM Tool

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.

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.

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

Using Hibernates features to relate DB objects with Java POJO's. Makes code more readable and uses Hibernate APIs. Productivity increases.

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Swapnil P

January 21, 2022 Source: G2.com

e Java to MySQL or Postgres One of the best ORM tool

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

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

Security issue, if you wanna build ur project highly secure go for JDBC instead of hibernate.

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

Connecting backend to database, i.

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Muhammad J

March 14, 2021 Source: G2.com

Oriented Interface base mapping on java classes 8+ years experience in Hibernate

What do you like best about Hibernate?

In addition to its own API Hibernate provide fully implementation of JPA specifications and standard.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

Different strategy for identity

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate?

Fetching eagerly strategy on a single query

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

Default first level Caching and then optional 2nd level cache

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SHISH P

January 24, 2021 Source: G2.com

Best object-relational mapping tool

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.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

As of now there is nothing to dislike. but some improvements are required.

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate?

As of now there is no competitor of hibernate which provides such a good services.

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

We are solving database related issues.

VB

Verified User in Investment Banking

January 16, 2021 Source: G2.com

Good framework to work with databases, saves a lot of time.

What do you like best about Hibernate?

Saves time while working with databases, simple interface, a lot of flexible tools to be used within my projects.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

There are no real downsides for this framework.

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

CRUD operations, creating complicated filters using criteria API.

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Shishpal V

January 13, 2021 Source: G2.com

Hibernate: Interaction with DB made easy

What do you like best about Hibernate?

easy interaction of the application with the database.

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

As of now we are not facing any cons in Hibernate.

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate?

Just explore it and you will become a big fan of it.

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.

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Isuru S

April 21, 2020 Source: G2.com

Hiberante for relational data model implementation

What do you like best about Hibernate?

Object oriented class model to map relational model

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

Ability to map inheritence to exploit full power of OOP

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate?

Hibernate level transactions

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

Various data structures List Map Bag etc

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

June 12, 2019 Source: G2.com

ORM tool to connect DB A simple easy ORM tool which increase development time

What do you like best about Hibernate?

.A good tool which connects JAVA data object with Database

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

Simple Mapping annotations like One To One which makes developer's task easy and Fast

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate?

Nothing

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

everything is good in hibernate because of its ease use of

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Chitransh S

June 12, 2019 Source: G2.com

ORM tool for Java applications

What do you like best about Hibernate?

Hibernate as an ORM tools is widely accepted which makes it easier to use and learn. It provides various methods for mapping. It provides the ability to create tables and their columns at the time when the application is deployed based on the entities that are defined in the application

What do you dislike about Hibernate?

Hibernate is quite well developed and well managed but there is still some room for improvement .

Recommendations to others considering Hibernate?

It is a very good option to consider if anyone is developing a java application and wants to use an ORM tool.

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

It makes the relational logic between the java application and the database quite easy to implement and easy to manage as well.

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