Performance Comparison of Persistence Frameworks

Abstract: One of the essential and most complex components in the software development process is the database. The complexity increases when the "orientation" of the interacting components differs. A persistence framework moves the program data in its most natural form to and from a permanent data store, the database. Thus a persistence framework manages the database and the mapping between the database and the objects. This paper compares the performance of two persistence frameworks ? Hibernate and iBatis?s SQLMaps using a banking database. The performance of both of these tools in single and multi-user environments are evaluated.