JDBC batch insert performance

user157195 picture user157195 · Jun 7, 2010 · Viewed 61.1k times · Source

I need to insert a couple hundreds of millions of records into the mysql db. I'm batch inserting it 1 million at a time. Please see my code below. It seems to be slow. Is there any way to optimize it?

try {
        // Disable auto-commit
        connection.setAutoCommit(false);

        // Create a prepared statement
        String sql = "INSERT INTO mytable (xxx), VALUES(?)";
        PreparedStatement pstmt = connection.prepareStatement(sql);

        Object[] vals=set.toArray();
        for (int i=0; i<vals.length; i++) {
            pstmt.setString(1, vals[i].toString());
            pstmt.addBatch();
        }

        // Execute the batch
        int [] updateCounts = pstmt.executeBatch();
        System.out.append("inserted "+updateCounts.length);

Answer

Bertil Chapuis picture Bertil Chapuis · May 16, 2012

I had a similar performance issue with mysql and solved it by setting the useServerPrepStmts and the rewriteBatchedStatements properties in the connection url.

Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://host:3306/db?useServerPrepStmts=false&rewriteBatchedStatements=true", "username", "password");