Hibernate

Hibernate is a Java framework that simplifies the development of Java application to interact with the database. It is an open source, lightweight, ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool. Hibernate implements the specifications of JPA (Java Persistence API) for data persistence.

Advantages of Hibernate Framework

Following are the advantages of hibernate framework:

• Fast Performance
• Database Independent Query
• is the object-oriented version of SQL. It generates the database independent queries. So you don't need to write database specific queries.
• Automatic Table Creation
• Simplifies Complex Join
• Provides Query Statistics and Database Status