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Asked: 2026-05-26T12:10:17+00:00

I know that this is a common question that was described a lot of

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I know that this is a common question that was described a lot of times.
But still I can’t get some thing – what about performance? Which method is faster?

Actually, I need a simple thing: the page makes a POST-request: id=0, name=’John’. The server-side script should check if id=0, then create a new record in DB, otherwise update existing.

I think that get() is more usefull for me because it will return a NULL in case of record is not exists in DB, while load() can return some temproray object.. Am I right?
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  1. Editorial Team

    Here’s a link to the equivalent question in the Hibernate forum which was the first result in my google query (Hibernate load vs get): https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?p=2387456

    There it states the following:

    The load() method is older; get() was added to Hibernate’s API due to user
    request. The difference is trivial:

    If load() can’t find the object in the cache or database, an exception is
    thrown. The load() method never returns null. The get() method returns
    null if the object can’t be found.

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