Can you compare JDBC/DAO with Hibernate?

Hibernate and straight SQL through JDBC are different approaches.They both have their specific significance in different scenarios.If your application is not to big and complex,not too many tables and queries involved then it will be better to use JDBC. While Hibernate is a POJO based ORM tool,using JDBC underneath to connect to database, which lets one to get rid of writing SQLs and associated JDBC code to fetch resultset,meaning less LOC but more of configuration work.It will suit better when you have large application involving large volume of data and queries.Moreover lazy loading,caching of data helps in having better performance and you need not call the database every time rather data stays in object form which can be reused.