Does hibernate increase performance?

[Nancy Kan]

Hi Srinivas,

Which one is better to use direct JDBC codes or hibernate? Usage of hibernate increase or decreases the performance of application?

Regards,
nancy

[Paul Sturrock]

It depends on how you use Hibernate (or JDBC) and how you measure performance.

[anish jain]

Paul Sturrock wrote:It depends on how you use Hibernate (or JDBC) and how you measure performance.

Can you please elaborate it more??

[David Newton]

@Anish: Used poorly, Hibernate can have a huge negative performance impact. It doesn't *have* to, though. Performance can be measured in many ways, including factoring in developer productivity.

[Fred Muhlenberg]

At the very least, there will be some performance degradation. How much depends on implementation. Implement poorly and bad things happen.

However, balancing the loss of performance (however minor) is the increase in maintainability of your software.
You aren't spending countless hours developing and testing a home-grown solution.
The folks who developed Hibernate have already addressed (and mitigated) many if not almost all problems any home-grown solution seeks to address.

Plus, Hibernate is an accepted standard, well understood by the industry. You can hire engineers with expertise in Hibernate. With a home-grown solution, you can't.

-FM