Performance of Inserting Rows with a PreparedStatement

This section describes how to measure the performance of inserting rows using a PreparedStatement object.

Running SQL statements using PreparedStatement objects is supposed to be faster than using regular Statement objects. To test this, I wrote the following Java program to measure the performance of inserting rows using a PreparedStatement object into an empty table:

/* MySqlPerformancePreparedStatement.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.sql.*;
public class MySqlPerformancePreparedStatement {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {
      com.mysql.cj.jdbc.MysqlDataSource ds
        = new com.mysql.cj.jdbc.MysqlDataSource();
      // com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource ds
      //   = new com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource();

      ds.setServerName("localhost");
      ds.setPortNumber(3306);
      ds.setDatabaseName("HerongDB");
      ds.setUser("Herong");
      ds.setPassword("TopSecret");
      con = ds.getConnection();

// Delete all rows from the table
      Statement sta = con.createStatement();
      sta.executeUpdate("DELETE FROM Profile");

// Start the test
     int count = 10000;
     long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis();

// PreparedStatement to insert rows
      PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement(
  "INSERT INTO Profile (FirstName, LastName) VALUES (?, ?)");
      Random r = new Random();
      for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
        ps.setString(1,Integer.toHexString(r.nextInt(9999)));
        ps.setString(2,Integer.toHexString(r.nextInt(999999)));
        ps.executeUpdate();
      }
      ps.close();

// End the test
     long t2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
     System.out.println("PreparedStatement insert "+count
         +" rows with "+(t2 -t1) +" milliseconds");

      con.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println("Exception: "+e.getMessage());
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Here is the result on a macOS system with a 2.6 GHz processor, running JDK 17, MySQL 8.0.17 and MySQL Connector/J 8.0.27:

PreparedStatement insert 10000 rows with 4373 milliseconds

As a reference, here is the result on a Windows 7 system with a 2.5GHz processor, running JDK 1.8, MySQL 5.5 and MySQL Connector/J 5.1.36:

PreparedStatement insert 10000 rows with 945810 milliseconds

I am very surprised to see that MySQL 5.5 is so slow to insert rows, about 100 milliseconds to insert 1 row!

As a reference, here is the result on a Windows XP system with a 997MHz processor, running JDK 1.6, MySQL 5.0 and MySQL Connector/J 5.0.7:

PreparedStatement insert 10000 rows with 1281 milliseconds

So why is MySQL 5.5 is so slow comparing to MySQL 5.0? The next tutorial will give some explanation.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Introduction

 JDK (Java SE) Installation

 MySQL Installation on Windows

 MySQL JDBC Driver (MySQL Connector/J)

MySQL - PreparedStatement

 PreparedStatement Overview

 PreparedStatement with Parameters

 PreparedStatement in Batch Mode

Performance of Inserting Rows with a PreparedStatement

 InnoDB (MySQL 5.5 Default Engine) Slower on INSERT

 Performance of Inserting Rows with a Regular Statement

 Performance of Inserting Rows with a ResultSet

 MySQL - Reference Implementation of JdbcRowSet

 MySQL - JBDC CallableStatement

 MySQL CLOB (Character Large Object) - TEXT

 MySQL BLOB (Binary Large Object) - BLOB

 Using Connection Pool with JDBC

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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