JDBC is simply a Java SE standard of database access offering the standard interfaces so you're not really bound to a specific JDBC implementation. MySQL Java connector (Connector/J) is an implementation of the JDBC interfaces for MySQL databases only. Out of experience, I'm involved to a project that uses huge amount of data using MySQL, and we mostly prefer MyISAM for data that can be generated: it allows to achieve much higher performance losing transactions, but generally speaking, MyISAM is faster, but InnoDB is more reliable.
I wondered for the performance of the INSERT statements too about a year ago, and found the following old testing code in my code shelf (sorry, it's a bit complex and a bit out of your question scope). The code below contains examples of 4 ways of inserting the test data:
- single
INSERTs;
- batched
INSERTs;
- manual bulk
INSERT (never use it - it's dangerous);
- and finally prepared bulk
INSERT).
It uses TestNG as the runner, and uses some custom code legacy like:
- the
runWithConnection() method - ensures that the connection is closed or put back to the connection pool after the callback is executed (but the code below uses not reliable strategy of the statement closing - even without try/finally to reduce the code);
IUnsafeIn<T, E extends Throwable> - a custom callback interface for the methods accepting a single parameter but potentially throwing an exception of type E, like: void handle(T argument) throws E;.
package test;
import test.IUnsafeIn;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import static java.lang.String.format;
import static java.lang.String.valueOf;
import static java.lang.System.currentTimeMillis;
import core.SqlBaseTest;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterSuite;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeSuite;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
public final class InsertVsBatchInsertTest extends SqlBaseTest {
private static final int ITERATION_COUNT = 3000;
private static final String CREATE_TABLE_QUERY = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ttt1 (c1 INTEGER, c2 FLOAT, c3 VARCHAR(5)) ENGINE = InnoDB";
private static final String DROP_TABLE_QUERY = "DROP TABLE ttt1";
private static final String CLEAR_TABLE_QUERY = "DELETE FROM ttt1";
private static void withinTimer(String name, Runnable runnable) {
final long start = currentTimeMillis();
runnable.run();
logStdOutF("%20s: %d ms", name, currentTimeMillis() - start);
}
@BeforeSuite
public void createTable() {
runWithConnection(new IUnsafeIn<Connection, SQLException>() {
@Override
public void handle(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
final PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement(CREATE_TABLE_QUERY);
statement.execute();
statement.close();
}
});
}
@AfterSuite
public void dropTable() {
runWithConnection(new IUnsafeIn<Connection, SQLException>() {
@Override
public void handle(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
final PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement(DROP_TABLE_QUERY);
statement.execute();
statement.close();
}
});
}
@BeforeTest
public void clearTestTable() {
runWithConnection(new IUnsafeIn<Connection, SQLException>() {
@Override
public void handle(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
final PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement(CLEAR_TABLE_QUERY);
statement.execute();
statement.close();
}
});
}
@Test
public void run1SingleInserts() {
withinTimer("Single inserts", new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
runWithConnection(new IUnsafeIn<Connection, SQLException>() {
@Override
public void handle(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
for ( int i = 0; i < ITERATION_COUNT; i++ ) {
final PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO ttt1 (c1, c2, c3) VALUES (?, ?, ?)");
statement.setInt(1, i);
statement.setFloat(2, i);
statement.setString(3, valueOf(i));
statement.execute();
statement.close();
}
}
});
}
});
}
@Test
public void run2BatchInsert() {
withinTimer("Batch insert", new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
runWithConnection(new IUnsafeIn<Connection, SQLException>() {
@Override
public void handle(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
final PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO ttt1 (c1, c2, c3) VALUES (?, ?, ?)");
for ( int i = 0; i < ITERATION_COUNT; i++ ) {
statement.setInt(1, i);
statement.setFloat(2, i);
statement.setString(3, valueOf(i));
statement.addBatch();
}
statement.executeBatch();
statement.close();
}
});
}
});
}
@Test
public void run3DirtyBulkInsert() {
withinTimer("Dirty bulk insert", new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
runWithConnection(new IUnsafeIn<Connection, SQLException>() {
@Override
public void handle(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder("INSERT INTO ttt1 (c1, c2, c3) VALUES ");
for ( int i = 0; i < ITERATION_COUNT; i++ ) {
if ( i != 0 ) {
builder.append(",");
}
builder.append(format("(%s, %s, '%s')", i, i, i));
}
final String query = builder.toString();
final PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement(query);
statement.execute();
statement.close();
}
});
}
});
}
@Test
public void run4SafeBulkInsert() {
withinTimer("Safe bulk insert", new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
runWithConnection(new IUnsafeIn<Connection, SQLException>() {
private String getInsertPlaceholders(int placeholderCount) {
final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder("(");
for ( int i = 0; i < placeholderCount; i++ ) {
if ( i != 0 ) {
builder.append(",");
}
builder.append("?");
}
return builder.append(")").toString();
}
@SuppressWarnings("AssignmentToForLoopParameter")
@Override
public void handle(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
final int columnCount = 3;
final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder("INSERT INTO ttt1 (c1, c2, c3) VALUES ");
final String placeholders = getInsertPlaceholders(columnCount);
for ( int i = 0; i < ITERATION_COUNT; i++ ) {
if ( i != 0 ) {
builder.append(",");
}
builder.append(placeholders);
}
final int maxParameterIndex = ITERATION_COUNT * columnCount;
final String query = builder.toString();
final PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement(query);
int valueIndex = 0;
for ( int parameterIndex = 1; parameterIndex <= maxParameterIndex; valueIndex++ ) {
statement.setObject(parameterIndex++, valueIndex);
statement.setObject(parameterIndex++, valueIndex);
statement.setObject(parameterIndex++, valueIndex);
}
statement.execute();
statement.close();
}
});
}
});
}
}
Take a look at the methods annotated with the @Test annotation: they actually execute the INSERT statements. Also please take a look at the CREATE_TABLE_QUERY constant: in the source code it uses InnoDB producing the following results at my machine with MySQL 5.5 installed (MySQL Connector/J 5.1.12):
InnoDB
Single inserts: 74148 ms
Batch insert: 84370 ms
Dirty bulk insert: 178 ms
Safe bulk insert: 118 ms
If you change the CREATE_TABLE_QUERY InnoDB to MyISAM, you'd see significant performance increase:
MyISAM
Single inserts: 604 ms
Batch insert: 447 ms
Dirty bulk insert: 63 ms
Safe bulk insert: 26 ms
Hope this helps.
UPD:
For the 4th way you must properly customize the max_allowed_packet in mysql.ini (the [mysqld] section) to be large enough to support really big packets.
