Its not a big deal in Hibernate. SQL can be logged. You can intercept everything. And you can use sophisticated monitoring (e.g. New Relic's APM). To me, debugg

Its not a big deal in Hibernate. SQL can be logged. You can intercept everything. And you can use sophisticated monitoring (e.g. New Relic's APM). To me, debugging with an ORM like Hibernate was never more complicated than debugging with the JDBC driver. Also, ORM implementations often contain multiple layers of abstractions, even co-existing ones (JQL vs. HQL). Personally, I don't like HQL / JQL. But it does a good job for simple tasks. For more complex things, I can write SQL and use just the mapping features of my ORM. I rather use Hibernate to get things done, than writing all the boiler plate with plain JDBC.