Hibernate is an 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 handles object-relational impedance mismatch problems by replacing direct, persistent database accesses with high-level object handling functions. Hibernate reduces lines of code by maintaining object-table mapping itself and returns results to applications in the form of Java objects. It relieves programmers from the manual handling of persistent data, hence reducing development time and maintenance costs. Let’s learn more about Hibernate.