Some of the important benefits of using hibernate framework are:
Hibernate is awesome as it eliminates all the boiler-plate code that comes with JDBC and takes care of managing resources, so we can focus on business logic.
Hibernate framework provides support for XML as well as JPA annotations, which makes our code implementation independent.
Hibernate framework provides a powerful query language that is Hibernate Query Language(HQL) which is similar to SQL. However, HQL is fully object-oriented and understands concepts like inheritance, polymorphism, and association, etc.
Hibernate is easy to integrate with other Java EE frameworks, it’s so popular that Spring Framework provides built-in support for integrating Hibernate with Spring applications.
Hibernate supports lazy initialization using proxy objects and performs actual database queries only when it’s required.
Hibernate framework provides a cache (first level and second level) that helps us in getting the better performance of the Java applications.
Hibernate framework supports native SQL queries so Hibernate is suitable for a database vendor-specific feature.
Overall Hibernate is the best choice in the current market for the ORM tool, it contains all the features that you will ever need in an ORM tool.
