I've been using Hibernate for 17 years and never had any performance issue with it. Want to know my secret? It's very simple. I just read the manual in 2004.

I've been using Hibernate for 17 years and never had any performance issue with it. Want to know my secret? It's very simple. I just read the manual in 2004. After using it successfully for so long, I wrote a best-seller about how to get the most out of it: https://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Java-Persistence-Vlad-Mihalcea/dp/973022823X https://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Java-Persistence-Vla... And, just because afterward I even worked on Hibernate to add all sorts of performance improvements to it, it doesn't mean I don't love SQL. In fact, I happen to run a High-Performance SQL training too: https://vladmihalcea.com/trainings/high-performance-sql/ https://vladmihalcea.com/trainings/high-performance-sql/ Your comment is based on a very common misconception that Hibernate aims to replace SQL. If that were true, then why do you think Hibernate has been offering the createSQLQuery (a.k.a. createNativeQuery) since 2002?