Need to insert 100000 rows in mysql using hibernate in under 5 seconds

Question

I am trying to insert 100,000 rows in a MYSQL table under 5 seconds using Hibernate(JPA). I have tried every trick hibernate offers and still can not do better than 35 seconds.

1st optimisation : I started with IDENTITY sequence generator which was resulting in 60 seconds to insert. I later abandoned the sequence generator and started assigning the @Id field myself by reading the MAX(id) and using AtomicInteger.incrementAndGet() to assign fields myself. That reduced the insert time to 35 seconds.

2nd optimisation : I enabled batch inserts, by adding

<prop key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size">30</prop> <prop key="hibernate.order_inserts">true</prop> <prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</prop> <prop key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_versioned_data">true</prop>

to the configuration. I was shocked to find that batch inserts did absolutely nothing to decrease insert time. It was still 35 seconds!

Now, I am thinking about trying to insert using multiple threads. Anyone has any pointers? Should I have chosen MongoDB?

Below is my configuration: 1. Hibernate configuration `

<bean id="entityManagerFactoryBean" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="packagesToScan" value="com.progresssoft.manishkr" />
        <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
            <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter" />
        </property>
        <property name="jpaProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.format_sql">${hibernate.format_sql}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size">30</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.order_inserts">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_versioned_data">true</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"
          id="dataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="${database.driver}"></property>
        <property name="url" value="${database.url}"></property>
        <property name="username" value="${database.username}"></property>
        <property name="password" value="${database.password}"></property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
        <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactoryBean" />
    </bean>



    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />

`

2. Entity configuration :

`

@Entity
@Table(name = "myEntity")
public class MyEntity {

    @Id
    private Integer id;

    @Column(name = "deal_id")
    private String dealId;

    ....
    ....

    @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    @Column(name = "timestamp")
    private Date timestamp;

    @Column(name = "amount")
    private BigDecimal amount;

    @OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
    @JoinColumn(name = "source_file")
    private MyFile sourceFile;

    public Deal(Integer id,String dealId, ....., Timestamp timestamp, BigDecimal amount, SourceFile sourceFile) {
        this.id = id;
        this.dealId = dealId;
        ...
        ...
        ...
        this.amount = amount;
        this.sourceFile = sourceFile;
    }


    public String getDealId() {
        return dealId;
    }

    public void setDealId(String dealId) {
        this.dealId = dealId;
    }

   ...

   ...


    ....

    public BigDecimal getAmount() {
        return amount;
    }

    public void setAmount(BigDecimal amount) {
        this.amount = amount;
    }

    ....


    public Integer getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Integer id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

`

3. Persisting code (service) :

`

@Service
@Transactional
public class ServiceImpl implements MyService{

    @Autowired
    private MyDao dao;
....

`void foo(){
        for(MyObject d : listOfObjects_100000){
            dao.persist(d);
        }
}

` 4. Dao class :

`

@Repository
public class DaoImpl implements MyDao{

    @PersistenceContext
    private EntityManager em;

    public void persist(Deal deal){
        em.persist(deal);
    }
}

`

Logs: `

DEBUG o.h.e.j.b.internal.AbstractBatchImpl - Reusing batch statement
18:26:32.906 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.hibernate.SQL - insert into deal (amount, deal_id, timestamp, from_currency, source_file, to_currency, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
18:26:32.906 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.b.internal.AbstractBatchImpl - Reusing batch statement
18:26:32.906 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.hibernate.SQL - insert into deal (amount, deal_id, timestamp, from_currency, source_file, to_currency, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
18:26:32.906 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.b.internal.AbstractBatchImpl - Reusing batch statement
18:26:32.906 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.hibernate.SQL - insert into deal (amount, deal_id, timestamp, from_currency, source_file, to_currency, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
18:26:32.906 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.b.internal.AbstractBatchImpl - Reusing batch statement
18:26:32.906 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.hibernate.SQL - insert into deal (amount, deal_id, timestamp, from_currency, source_file, to_currency, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
18:26:32.906 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.b.internal.AbstractBatchImpl - Reusing batch statement
18:26:32.906 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.hibernate.SQL - insert into deal (amount, deal_id, timestamp, from_currency, source_file, to_currency, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
18:26:32.906 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] 

... ...

DEBUG o.h.e.j.b.internal.AbstractBatchImpl - Reusing batch statement
18:26:34.002 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.hibernate.SQL - insert into deal (amount, deal_id, timestamp, from_currency, source_file, to_currency, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
18:26:34.002 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.b.internal.AbstractBatchImpl - Reusing batch statement
18:26:34.002 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.hibernate.SQL - insert into deal (amount, deal_id, timestamp, from_currency, source_file, to_currency, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
18:26:34.002 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.b.internal.AbstractBatchImpl - Reusing batch statement
18:26:34.002 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.hibernate.SQL - insert into deal (amount, deal_id, timestamp, from_currency, source_file, to_currency, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
18:26:34.002 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.b.internal.AbstractBatchImpl - Reusing batch statement
18:26:34.002 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.hibernate.SQL - insert into deal (amount, deal_id, timestamp, from_currency, source_file, to_currency, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
18:26:34.002 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.batch.internal.BatchingBatch - Executing batch size: 27
18:26:34.011 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.hibernate.SQL - update deal_source_file set invalid_rows=?, source_file=?, valid_rows=? where id=?
18:26:34.015 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.batch.internal.BatchingBatch - Executing batch size: 1
18:26:34.018 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.t.i.jdbc.JdbcTransaction - committed JDBC Connection
18:26:34.018 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.t.i.jdbc.JdbcTransaction - re-enabling autocommit
18:26:34.032 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.s.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager - Closing JPA EntityManager [org.hibernate.jpa.internal.EntityManagerImpl@2354fb09] after transaction
18:26:34.032 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.s.o.jpa.EntityManagerFactoryUtils - Closing JPA EntityManager
18:26:34.032 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.internal.JdbcCoordinatorImpl - HHH000420: Closing un-released batch
18:26:34.032 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.i.LogicalConnectionImpl - Releasing JDBC connection
18:26:34.033 [http-nio-8080-exec-2] DEBUG o.h.e.j.i.LogicalConnectionImpl - Released JDBC connection

'

Answer 1

After trying all possible solutions I finally found a solution to insert 100,000 rows under 5 seconds!

Things I tried:

1) Replaced hibernate/database's AUTOINCREMENT/GENERATED id's by self generated ID's using AtomicInteger

2) Enabling batch_inserts with batch_size=50

3) Flushing cache after every 'batch_size' number of persist() calls

4) multithreading (did not attempt this one)

Finally what worked was using a native multi-insert query and inserting 1000 rows in one sql insert query instead of using persist() on every entity. For inserting 100,000 entities, I create a native query like this "INSERT into MyTable VALUES (x,x,x),(x,x,x).......(x,x,x)" [1000 row inserts in one sql insert query]

Now it takes around 3 seconds for inserting 100,000 records! So the bottleneck was the orm itself! For bulk inserts, the only thing that seems to work is native insert queries!