11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Hibernate first-hand: 0 endorse it, 6 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Hibernate silently commits part of a transaction if Spring Boot (or generally any async operation) shuts down mid-transaction.”
regret · production · mixon1212 · 2026-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Spring boot apps with hibernate often take at least ten seconds.”
regret · personal · djeikyb · 2017-08-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't know how much time I wasted debugging or optimizing Hibernate-stuff in Java, or wrestling with CoreData in iOS.”
regret · production · CookWithMe · 2014-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I want to see what database column is shown in view, I need to start with view class, and descend all those layers down to hibernate mapping.”
regret · production · ajuc · 2012-04-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Hibernate for 9 years and I finally came to the conclusion that it's just not worth the pain.”
regret · production · 9 yr · va_coder · 2011-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“there's a lot of tangled XML and you need to do a fair amount of gymnastics to get through it all. Server restarts are common and painful.”
regret · production · dabeeeenster · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We did a tricky hibernate upgrade and only found out 4 hours after the deployment that the system is not working.”
neutral · production · dominikz · 2026-05-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a lot of the big ones (Hibernate, Spring, a lot of Apache)”
neutral · production · aggregat · 2023-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“exposed the database through hibernate, and new processes were written in java”
neutral · production · ajuc · 2019-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we did read/write using HQL. We migrated to CQRS where the command part would generate an INSERT statement to the database (Using the ORM)”
neutral · production · parasubvert · 2017-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm currently working on a set of SOAP web services using tomcat, cxf, mysql, and hibernate among others.”
neutral · production · pocoloco · 2010-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?