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Developed byHibernate team
Maintained byRed Hat
Founded2001
LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License
Open source✓ Open Source
Use caseobject-oriented database queries
Technical
Protocols
JDBC
Integrates with
Hibernate ORM
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Alternative to
native SQL queries
Based onSQL
Competes with
JPQL
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HQL

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Hibernate Query Language - object-oriented query language similar to SQL but operates on persistent objects.

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