[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-5360) Poor batch insert performance when inserting different objects

Poor batch insert performance when inserting different objects -------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-5360 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-5360 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Affects Versions: 3.3.2 Reporter: Koen Verrecken Batch insert works nicely when you only have one object to insert: for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) { Book book = new Book(); dao.save(book); } Provided that the batch size in Hibernate is set to 20, Hibernate will correctly batch up to 20 insert statements and execute the batch at the end. However, the following code example gives a different result: for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) { Book book = new Book(); Author author = new Author(); dao.save(book); dao.save(author); } In this case Hibernate will execute every single insert as a separate batch query. The result is 40 different insert statements fired at the database instead of 2. In the org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher class I found a probable reason for this behaviour. The prepareBatchStatement method checks if the current sql is the same as the sql of the previous statement. If so, the previous prepared statement will be reused. This is never the case for my 2nd example above, where Hibernate continuously switches between "insert into Book..." and "insert into Author" statements. Would it be possible to cache more than one prepared statement?