Hibernate ORM vs JDBI

There are countless great books and articles, it's taught at universities, and easy to find both skilled labour and advanced consultants .

Fully open source, managed by the tought leaders in the Java community, decision making is open yet sponsored and legally backed by Red Hat.

Hibernate ORM sports several advanced extensions such as Hibernate Search providing Lucene and Elasticsearch full-text search, Hibernate Spatial for GIS extensions, Envers for versioning and temporal queries, Hibernate OGM to use NoSQL as your primary datastore, advanced caching integrations and various connection pools.

Hibernate was very innovative from the beginning but is still very actively developed, improving significantly every release.

ORMs are typically not easy to scale yet the Hibernate team has been very sensitive to this topic, constantly optimising the code further and adding various advanced features to avoid paying a high cost for the convenience.

Most other successful projects in the Java community integrate with Hibernate, making integration often a solved problem.

Its dependency tree is very small, which helps to avoid dependency conflicts with other packages. The documentation is easy to understand, is very easy to find and it is very concise.

Fluent api takes advantage of lambda expressions and functional programming included in Java 8.

Just need to add a dependency and create an instance of Jdbi, the fluent api makes it really easy to inspect methods.

Is very flexible, you can create your own queries and your own mappers optimized for your database.