Comparison of EclipseLink with PostgreSQL server vs Hibernate with PostgreSQL server

Each of the following tables focuses on a specific database operation, where the last table presents average results comparison.

Speed comparison of JPA database persistence operations (normalized score, higher is better)

Transaction Size =>	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	7.3	7.1	4.2	3.4	5.8	5.2
Element Collection Test	3.1	2.9	1.9	1.7	2.5	2.3
Inheritance Test	6.9	7.0	5.0	3.6	5.9	5.3
Indexing Test	10.0	9.3	6.8	6.1	8.4	7.7
Graph (Binary Tree) Test	3.5	3.0	3.3	2.9	3.4	2.9
Multithreading Test	31.8	31.7	14.5	13.9	23.1	22.8
All Tests	10.4	10.2	6.0	5.3	8.2	7.7

The results above show that in general EclipseLink with PostgreSQL server is slightly more efficient than Hibernate with PostgreSQL server in persisting JPA entity objects to the database.

Speed comparison of JPA database retrieval operations (normalized score, higher is better)

Retrieval Size =>	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	6.8	5.5	17.2	11.5	12.0	8.5
Element Collection Test	0.026	0.025	0.020	0.017	0.023	0.021
Inheritance Test	6.0	5.2	19.7	14.0	12.9	9.6
Indexing Test	5.6	4.6	19.5	13.3	12.6	8.9
Graph (Binary Tree) Test	0.47	0.61	0.61	0.78	0.54	0.70
Multithreading Test	13.5	11.3	27.8	17.0	20.6	14.2
All Tests	5.4	4.5	14.1	9.4	9.8	7.0

The results above show that in general EclipseLink with PostgreSQL server is more efficient than Hibernate with PostgreSQL server in retrieving JPA entity objects from the database.

Speed comparison of JPA database query operations (normalized score, higher is better)

Retrieval Size =>	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	55.5	55.5	7.8	6.1	31.6	30.8
Element Collection Test	15.4	11.0	0.028	0.016	7.7	5.5
Inheritance Test	54.9	52.3	11.5	8.7	33.2	30.5
Indexing Test	0.077	0.050	10.0	8.8	5.1	4.4
Multithreading Test	55.3	55.2	12.0	9.2	33.7	32.2
All Tests	36.2	34.8	8.3	6.6	22.3	20.7

The results above show that in general EclipseLink with PostgreSQL server is slightly more efficient than Hibernate with PostgreSQL server in executing the tested JPA queries.

Speed comparison of JPA database update operations (normalized score, higher is better)

Transaction Size =>	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	6.2	5.3	4.1	2.7	5.1	4.0
Element Collection Test	0.080	0.067	0.028	0.026	0.054	0.046
Inheritance Test	6.4	5.4	6.1	3.8	6.2	4.6
Indexing Test	6.5	5.4	7.0	4.3	6.8	4.8
Graph (Binary Tree) Test	0.90	1.1	0.50	0.58	0.70	0.82
Multithreading Test	36.0	29.6	9.1	6.3	22.5	18.0
All Tests	9.3	7.8	4.5	2.9	6.9	5.4

The results above show that in general EclipseLink with PostgreSQL server is slightly more efficient than Hibernate with PostgreSQL server in updating JPA entity objects in the database.

Speed comparison of JPA database removal operations (normalized score, higher is better)

Transaction Size =>	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	5.7	5.3	5.7	4.2	5.7	4.8
Element Collection Test	0.025	0.020	stopped	stopped	0.012	0.0098
Inheritance Test	5.5	5.1	5.4	4.2	5.4	4.6
Indexing Test	10.4	9.5	10.0	6.3	10.2	7.9
Graph (Binary Tree) Test	0.016	0.012	0.013	0.012	0.015	0.012
Multithreading Test	26.3	23.3	16.8	21.8	21.6	22.5
All Tests	8.0	7.2	6.3	6.1	7.2	6.6

The results above show that in general EclipseLink with PostgreSQL server is slightly more efficient than Hibernate with PostgreSQL server in deleting JPA entity objects from the database.

Comparison of JPA/Database speed - the averages (normalized score, higher is better)

Transaction/Retrieval Size	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	EclipseLink PostgreSQL server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	16.3	15.7	7.8	5.6	12.1	10.7
Element Collection Test	3.7	2.8	0.40	0.35	2.1	1.6
Inheritance Test	15.9	15.0	9.5	6.9	12.7	10.9
Indexing Test	6.5	5.8	10.7	7.8	8.6	6.8
Graph (Binary Tree) Test	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.1
Multithreading Test	32.6	30.2	16.0	13.6	24.3	21.9
All Tests	13.1	12.1	7.8	6.0	10.5	9.1

The results above show that in general EclipseLink with PostgreSQL server is slightly more efficient than Hibernate with PostgreSQL server in performing JPA database operations.

JPA Performance Benchmark (JPAB)