In the preceding section, we saw common Hibernate traps or issues. These issues don't necessarily mean faults in Hibernate; sometimes, they are from incorrect usage of the framework, and in some cases, limitations of the ORM framework itself. In the following sections, we will see how to improve performance in Hibernate.
Hibernate performance tuning
Approaches to avoid the n + 1 problem
We already saw the n + 1 problem in the Hibernate n + 1 problem section. Too many queries will slow down our application's overall performance. So, in order to avoid these additional queries with lazy loading, let's see what options are available.