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Hibernate
Object-relational mapping tool for the Java programming language. It provides a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a relational database. Hibernate is a persistence framework which is used to persist data from Java environment to database.
| First released | 2001 |
| Developed by | Gavin King, Red Hat |
| Latest stable version | Hibernate v5 |
| Open-source | Not defined |
Interesting facts
Object-relational mapping or ORM is a programming method for mapping the objects to the relational model where entities/classes are mapped to tables, instances are mapped to rows and attributes of instances are mapped to columns of table.
