Java Batch Insert into MySQL very slow [duplicate]

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JDBC batch insert performance

I have the following method in a class:

    public void insertShingleSets(Vector<ShingleSet> shingleSets)
    {
        String sql = "INSERT   INTO tblPostingsShingles("+
                "rowId, " +                    
                "shingle) " +                     
                "VALUES(?,?);";

        PreparedStatement statement = null;
        try {
            statement = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
            for (int i = 0; i < shingleSets.size(); i++)
            {   String id = shingleSets.get(i).getRowId();
                String shingle = shingleSets.get(i).getShingle();
                statement.setInt(1, Integer.parseInt(id));
                statement.setString(2, shingle);
                statement.addBatch();
                if ((i + 1) % 1000 == 0) {
                    System.out.println("doing a batch " + i);         //-------------
                    statement.executeBatch(); // Execute every 1000 items.
                    System.out.println("done batch " + i);            //-------------
                             }
            }
            statement.executeBatch();
        }
       catch (SQLException ex)
            {
                // handle any errors
                System.out.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
                System.out.println("SQLState: " + ex.getSQLState());
                System.out.println("VendorError: " + ex.getErrorCode());
            }

        finally {
            if (statement != null)
                try { statement.close();
                } catch (SQLException logOrIgnore) {}
            if (conn != null)
                try { conn.close();
                } catch (SQLException logOrIgnore) {}
        }
    }

The time between executing: System.out.println("doing a batch " + i); and executing: System.out.println("done batch " + i); is about 30 seconds which seems rather a lot considering it's only inserting two columns into a three column table (the other column is an autonumber primary key and when starting/testing there were no rows in the table). The only thing I can think of is that before this method is called, another method uses a query that checks in the table tblPostingsShingles to check if certain rowIds are there. However, I would have thought that any locks would be released when that method finishes (it has the same finally clause as this method). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Dave

Answer 1

You can experiment with batch sizes, but I've had processes that seemed quite fast at 500 a batch and 1000 is not overly large - there's no obvious reason that I can see that that would take so long - it's easily an order of magnitude too slow.

Other possible performance bottlenecks are your mysql configuration and network connection speed. Is this speed any faster than doing a single write at a time?