Performance of Inserting Rows with a Regular Statement

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

To compare the performance result from the previous result with regular Statement objects. I wrote the following Java program to measure the performance of inserting rows using a regular Statement object into an empty table:

/* DerbyPerformanceRegularStatement.java
 * Copyright (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
 */
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.sql.*;
import javax.naming.*;
public class DerbyPerformanceRegularStatement {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    Connection con = null;
    try {
      Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
      env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
        "com.sun.jndi.fscontext.RefFSContextFactory");
      env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "file:/local/fscontext");
      Context ctx = new InitialContext(env);
      DataSource ds = (DataSource) ctx.lookup("DerbyTestDB");
      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();

// Regular Statement to insert rows
      Statement rs = con.createStatement();
      Random r = new Random();
      for (int i=0; i<count; i++) {
        rs.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO Profile (FirstName, LastName)"
          +" VALUES ('"+Integer.toHexString(r.nextInt(9999))
          +"', '"+Integer.toHexString(r.nextInt(999999))+"')");
      }
      rs.close();

// End the test
     long t2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
     System.out.println("Regular Statement 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 Windows XP system with a 997MHz processor. You should compare this with the result from other performance tutorials.

Regular Statement insert 10000 rows with 47531 milliseconds

Comparing with PreparedStatement, regular Statement is about 6 times slower, see the table below:

Statement           # of inserts   Time in ms.   Comparison
PreparedStatement   10000           7953         100%
      ds.setDatabaseName("AdventureWorks2019");       47531         598%

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Introduction

 JDK (Java SE) Installation

 Installing and Running Derby (Java DB)

 Derby (Java DB) JDBC Driver

 Derby (Java DB) JDBC DataSource Objects

 Derby (Java DB) - DML Statements

 Derby (Java DB) - ResultSet Objects of Queries

Derby (Java DB) - PreparedStatement

 PreparedStatement Overview

 PreparedStatement with Parameters

 PreparedStatement in Batch Mode

 Performance of Inserting Rows with a PreparedStatement

Performance of Inserting Rows with a Regular Statement

 Performance of Inserting Rows with a ResultSet

 Summary of JDBC Drivers and Database Servers

 Using Connection Pool with JDBC

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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