JDBC performance

"When you have to deal with a large amount of data to be operated on mySQL databases, the performance can be dramatically improved using a few simple tweaks.

First of all you have to use Statement.addBatch/executeBatch instead of simple execute methods. For each added batch, the jdbc driver will store in local memory and when the executeBatch is invoked, all the batches are sent at once to the database. This will result in an huge speed improvement." - see details of JDBC performance tuning here.