technical definition of hibernate interms of database

Hibernate is open source lightweight Java based ORM software to develop
object based Database software independent o-r mapping persistence logic in Java, Jee and Java
Framework software based applications.
1. When hibernate software is installed it gives its source code to programmers and
moreover Hibernate is free software due to this we say Hibernate is opensource software
2. EJB Components are heavy weight components because they need heavy weight
container, server softwares for execution.
3. The resources of EJB components are EJB API dependencies. Hibernate software and
Hibernate components are light weight because to execute Hibernate applications we use
just JDK software, Hibernate Software and there is no need of working with the heavy
weight containers, server softwares.
4. Some resources of Hibernate applications can be developed without using Hibernate API.
5. We can write Hibernate logic in any kind of Java applications to make them taking with
Database Software.