Advantage of Hibernate over JDBC

Advantage of Hibernate over JDBC

JDBC	Hibernate
With JDBC, developer has to write code to map an object model's data to a relational data model and its corresponding database schema.	Hibernate is flexible and powerful ORM solution to map Java classes to database tables. Hibernate takes care of this mapping using XML files so developer need not write code for this.
The mapping of Java objects with database tables and vice versa conversion is to be taken care of by the developer, the developer needs to write code for this.	Hibernate provides transparent persistence, to map database tables rows to application objects during interaction with RDBMS.
JDBC supports Structured Query Language (SQL). Developer has to find out the efficient way to access database, i.e. to select effective query from a number of queries to perform same task.	Hibernate provides a powerful query language Hibernate Query Language. Hibernate also supports native SQL statements. It also selects an effective way to perform a database manipulation task for an application.
Application using JDBC to handle persistent data having database specific code. The code is written to map table fields to object properties. As table changes or database changes then it is essential to change object structure as well to map table-to-object/object-to-table.	Hibernate provides this mapping. The actual mapping between tables and application objects is done in XML files. If there is change in Database or in any table then the only need to change XML file properties.
With JDBC, it is developer’s responsibility to handle JDBC result set and convert it to Java objects through code to use this persistent data in application.	Hibernate reduces lines of code by maintaining object-table mapping and returns result to application in form of Java objects. It relieves programmer from manual handling of persistent data, hence reducing the development time and maintenance cost.
With JDBC, to enable caching the developer needs to write the code for caching of Objects	Hibernate, has its own caching facility, instead of coding for the caching feature, the developer just configures caching through configuration files.
In JDBC there is no check that always every user has updated data. This check has to be added by the developer.	Hibernate enables developer to define version type field which updates database table every time a row is updated in form of Java object to that table.If two users retrieve same row and modify it and one user save this modified row   to database, version is automatically updated for this row by Hibernate. When other user tries to save updated row to database then it does not allow saving it because this user does not have updated data.