On 03/06/2015 20:50, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Bjørn, > > On 6/3/15 2:52 PM, Bjørn T Johansen wrote: >> Just saw a discussion about Tomcat DBCP 8.0.18 issue, where Tomcat >> JDBC pooling vs Commons DBCP 2 pooling was briefly discussed.. So >> now I am a bit curious... I am using Tomcat JDBC, because I read >> somewhere that this was better than DBCP (guess they were talking >> about DBCP 1 then). Does this mean I should be using DBCP 2 >> instead of Tomcat JDBC with my Tomcat 8.x installations?
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." > Because of it being the default in Tomcat, DBCP2 is likely to have > much more mileage under its belt than tomcat-jdbc, so edge cases and > strange issues are more likely to be discovered and solved. It is probably around 50/50 at the moment since tomcat-jdbc has been around longer but at the moment the balance is shifting towards DBCP2. > If you want to know about performance, you'll have to benchmark in > your own environment -- and make sure you use a valid test case. Don't > just test how long it takes to check-out 1M connections and return > them to the pool in a single thread. +1. In terms of raw speed for default settings tomcat-jdbc will be faster. Once you configure them for comparable behaviour the difference is a lot less. > I think it's a matter of preference for the most part. At the moment, yes. > If I were you, I'd stick with my existing configuration, if only > because you know it works. ;) +1 Longer term, I'd be looking towards DBCP 2 - mainly because of the general lack of activity on tomcat-jdbc. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
