title: Hibernate vs CFQuery
body: <p>Recently CF9 released Hibernate Support. One thing that I cant grasp is the diiferences between Hibernate and CFquery. While i see that Hibernate is good for mapping out your tables to objects and then calling those objects like getTableName() etc. But say if i want to replicate this query</p>
  
  <p>SELECT SUM(tableVal)
  FROM mytable</p>
  
  <p>Dont i still have to use HQL and call the query. If I do then whats the use of hibernate. it just seems like another route to essentially get the same data.</p>
  
  <p>I'm 100000% sure im missing a BIG concept here. If anyone can clairfy the differences and point me at some resources it would be amazing.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Faisal Abid</p>