What are the key benefits of Hibernate ?

Key benefits of using Hibernate

• Powerful object-oriented HQL (Hibernate query language)
• Transparent persistence based on POJOs without byte code processing
• Descriptive O/R Mapping through mapping file.
• Automatic primary key generation
• Automatic Table creation (if not found)
• Hibernate caching
• Session level (First level)
• Query and Second level cache.
• Performance :
• Lazy initialization
• Outer join fetching
• Batch fetching