Hibernate StatelessSession Upsert
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how the Hibernate StatelessSession Upsert method works. As I explained in this article, the UPSERT operation allows you to INSERT a record if there is no such record matching the filtering criteria or to UPDATE it in case the record exists. While many relational database systems offer the standard MERGE command to execute the UPSERT command, the syntax may differ slightly from one database to the other. Therefore, it’s great that Hibernate provides a portable way to achieve this goal.
Index Selectivity
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how Index Selectivity works in relational database systems and why the database Optimizer might choose to avoid using an index if the number of matching records is large. Index selectivity is inversely proportional to the number of index entries matched by a given value. So, a unique index has the highest selectivity because only a single entry can be matched by any given value. On the other hand, if column values are skewed, then a column value matching a large number of table… Read More
Table partitioning with Spring and Hibernate
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can implement a table partitioning solution when using Spring and Hibernate. The goal of table partitioning is to split a large table into multiple smaller partition tables so that the associated table and index records can fit into the in-memory Buffer Pool, therefore allowing a more efficient seek or scan.
The best way to use Spring Data JPA Stream methods
Introduction In this article, we are going to see what is the best way to use Spring Data JPA Stream query methods. When having to fetch a larger result set, the advantage of using a Java Stream is that the query result set could be fetched progressively instead of getting all the data at once.
PostgreSQL JDBC Statement Caching
Introduction In this article, we’re going to see how the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver implements Statement Caching and what settings we need to configure in order to optimize the performance of our data access layer.

