Vlad Mihalcea

Why you should use compact table columns

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, I’m going to explain you should use compact table columns when designing your database schema.

By using compact table columns, you can cache more table records and index entries and, therefore, speed up your SQL queries.

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High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter, Issue 69

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

Welcome to a new issue of the High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter in which we share articles, videos, workshops, and StackOverflow answers that are very relevant to any developer who interacts with a database system using Java.

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Avoid using Set for bidirectional JPA OneToMany collections

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, we are going to see why there is no benefit in using the Set collection type when mapping a bidirectional JPA OneToMany association.

While the @OneToMany annotation can be used to map both unidirectional and bidirectional associations, as I explained this article, you should avoid the unidirectional mapping since it can lead to very inefficient SQL statements.

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JTA Transaction Type

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, we are going to analyze how the JTA transaction type works.

Since this is the default transaction type when using Jakarta EE or Java EE applications, it’s very important to understand how JTA transactions work, especially since Spring Boot or Spring applications use RESOURCE_LOCAL transactions instead.

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The best way to determine the optimal connection pool size

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, we are going to see the best way to determine the optimal connection pool size using the FlexyPool auto-incrementing pool strategy.

If you are unfamiliar with the reason why database applications need a connection pool, then check out this article first.

Now, according to the Universal Scalability Law, the maximum throughput of a database system is achieved for a limited number of database connections. If we increase the number of connections above that particular number, the throughput will get worse.

So, with that in mind, our goal is to make sure that each application node configures its connection pool to use the right number of database connections so that when summing all of them, we don’t get over the aforementioned optimal number of database connections.

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High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter, Issue 68

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

Welcome to a new issue of the High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter in which we share articles, videos, workshops, and StackOverflow answers that are very relevant to any developer who interacts with a database system using Java.

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How to use LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy with Spring Data JPA

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, we are going to see how we can use the LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy with Spring Data JPA to acquire the database connection as late as possible and, therefore, reduce transaction response time.

For an introduction to how Spring transactions manage database connections, check out this article as well.

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RESOURCE_LOCAL JPA Transaction Type

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, we are going to analyze how the RESOURCE_LOCAL JPA transaction type works.

Since this is the default transaction type when using Spring Boot or Spring Data JPA, it’s very important to understand how transactions are managed when using the RESOURCE_LOCAL mode.

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High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter, Issue 67

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

Welcome to a new issue of the High-Performance Java Persistence Newsletter in which we share articles, videos, workshops, and StackOverflow answers that are very relevant to any developer who interacts with a database system using Java.

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Eleven years of blogging

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

What if there were a tool that could automatically detect what caused performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer?

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have such a tool to watch your application and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems?

Well, Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool! And it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than fixing performance issues in your production system on a Saturday night, you are better off using Hypersistence Optimizer to help you prevent those issues so that you can spend your time on the things that you love!

Eleven years later!

Eleven years ago today, I decided to create my blog on WordPress.com, and this is the first article I published.

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