Spring JDBCTemplate VS Hibernate in terms of performance

Is your database design hibernate friendly? If yes then use hibernate...if not then you may want to avoid it. Jdbctemplate has many upsides and there are ways to make sure your SQL queries are easily maintained. Have a class that holds all of them or read them from a file etc. If columns have to be update there is a way to use standard jdbc to get resultset meta data allowing you to retrieve column names. This can be complex but an interesting way to solve an issue. Hibernate is a great tool but complex data models make it get really tricky.