Connection pooling options with JDBC: DBCP vs C3P0

Question

What is the best connection pooling library available for Java/JDBC?

I\'m considering the 2 main candidates (free / open-source):

• Apache DBCP - http:/

Answer 1

Here are some articles that show that DBCP has significantly higher performance than C3P0 or Proxool. Also in my own experience c3p0 does have some nice features, like prepared statement pooling and is more configurable than DBCP, but DBCP is plainly faster in any environment I have used it in.

Difference between dbcp and c3p0? Absolutely nothing! (A Sakai developers blog) http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/nrm216/sakaidelic/2007/12/difference_between_dbcp_and_c3.html

See also the like to the JavaTech article "Connection Pool Showdown" in the comments on the blog post.