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Sorry for being off-topic, but why is Hibernate called Hibernate?

I can't find an explanation on the Wikipedia or GitHub pages, and whenever I see the name come up on HN my brain does a weird double-take as it goes "Is this an OS hibernation tool--No, it's the Java database thing... does it make objects go to sleep?"

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Yes, it makes your objects go to sleep.

The use case is "you have a collection of objects that reference each other in memory. You want to say: Bam, put that structure like it is into a database ("put it to sleep"), and retrieve it again for me if I need it ("wake it up after winter is gone")."

For this type of ORM Hibernate works fine. If you want to use a database as a database, it resists at every turn.

Probably a reference to how JPA-Hibernate lets you fatten up your creatures (in memory) and then put them to sleep (in the RDBMS) until they're ready to play again.

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