Hibernate vs CFQuery

Question

Recently CF9 released Hibernate Support. One thing that I cant grasp is the diiferences between Hibernate and CFquery. While i see that Hibernate is good for mapping out your tables to objects and then calling those objects like getTableName() etc. But say if i want to replicate this query

SELECT SUM(tableVal) FROM mytable

Dont i still have to use HQL and call the query. If I do then whats the use of hibernate. it just seems like another route to essentially get the same data.

I'm 100000% sure im missing a BIG concept here. If anyone can clairfy the differences and point me at some resources it would be amazing.

Thanks, Faisal Abid

Answer 1

HQL would work, basic SQL in cfquery would still work as well.

The strength of Hibernate is not doing aggregated functions like SUM() or AVG(), but the Mapping of Object Relations (ORM).