On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 26/06/17 17:16, Coty Sutherland wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have been looking at the connection pooling libraries that we >> presently have and it appears (at least the way the documentation puts >> it, https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/jdbc-pool.html) that >> tomcat-jdbc is much better than tomcat-dbcp. > > It is a false comparison. It is comparing jdbc-pool to DBCP 1.x. > tomcat-dbcp is based on DBCP 2.x. > >> Have we considered >> promoting it to the default connection pool implementation? Do we want >> to continue to offer it and an alternative? Are there situations when >> dbcp is better than jdbc? > > The performance numbers are broadly similar. tomcat-jdbc had a slight > edge last time I checked but the differences are in the noise compared > to even the most basis database operation. The reason for that edge is > that tomcat-jdbc doesn't do everything by default that tomcat-dbcp does. > > Some back-ground: > http://markmail.org/message/nhayhdcstkj2lssf
Thanks for the history. >> Disclaimer: I haven't used either, but figured that potentially >> removing a dependency was worth inquiring about. > > Once thing tomcat-jdbc does a lot better than tomcat-dbcp is JMX. That > is the primary reason I haven't followed up on this thread: > > http://tomcat.markmail.org/thread/o4d2qalqf7267gl6 OK, got it. I'll leave it alone too then :) > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
