Batch Update with JPA

A customer of mine has a highly scalable system, with high database load. To improve performance, we’ve decided to use Batch update. Alas – the application uses JPA, so how do we do it?

SessionFactoryImplementor sfi = SessionFactoryImplementor)entityManager.unwrap(Session.class).getSessionFactory();
//Retrieve DB connection
connect = sfi.getConnectionProvider().getConnection();
PreparedStatement ps = connect.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO temp_table values(?,?)");
for (Data p : insertCommands) {
	ps.setInt(1, p.getId());
	if (p.isWorking() != null) {
		ps.setInt(2, p.isWorking() ? 1 : 0);
	} else {
		ps.setNull(2, Types.INTEGER);
	}
	ps.addBatch();
}
ps.executeBatch();

Some points to remember:

1. Do not close the connection!!! When closing the connection, it returns to the connection pool, without commit or rollback. You’ll get some exceptions in your code, but mainly – you’re open to database locks and dead-locks, as the connection keeps all the locks that were done in the batch update. And since other threads will reuse the connection – it will never close.
2. Do not use Statement.addBatch. Use PreparedStatement.addBatch. When I checked both solutions, the Statement one took anywhere between 30s-60s. The PreparedStatement version took <300ms…