Hi guys, I have a general question. We have four types of JDBC drivers. Normally, which one has better performance? I looked at the document from Oracle, they said OCI is faster than thin, but I did not find OCI faster. Theoretically, type II use bineray library and it should be faster than type IV however I heard people say type IV is the fastest. Jun Hong [ January 04, 2002: Message edited by: Jun Hong ]
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Stanley Tan
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That's a good question. I remember reading something like that before, but I can't really remember the details. Why don't you try it yourself? For a fact, the Oracle thin driver is a little bit faster than the OCI driver.
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Hi Stanley, Thank you for your reply. I think right now we can use JIT or HotSpot JVM, and this makes thin driver faster. On IBM HotSpot JDK 1.3, I also find thin driver a little bit faster. Perhaps, in old days (before JIT) OCI was faster. Type I is slow and we all know that. Did someone try Type III? Jun Hong
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Well, in general, Type IV drivers are the fastest because there is the least amount of layers to get to the database.
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