What is Hibernate Caching?
In a typical application, you perform lot of operations like instantiate objects, load object from the database and so on. Sometime in multiuser application you may face a situation in handling multiple call of databases. Hibernate offers caching functionality which is designed to reduces the amount of necessary database access. This is a very powerful feature if used correctly. It increases your application performance and works between your application and the database as it avoids the number of database hit as many as possible. Hibernate Cache Types : Hibernate uses different types of caches. Each type of cache is used for different purposes. Let us first have a look at this cache types. First level cache Second level cache Query level cache 1. First level cache : First-level cache is the session cache and is always Associates with the Session object. Hibernate uses this cache by default. The Session object keeps an object under its own cache before committing to th...