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JPA Performance Benchmark (JPAB)

Comparison of DataNucleus with HSQLDB 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
	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	failed	8.9	failed	10.6	failed	9.8
Element Collection Test	failed	8.2	failed	7.3	failed	7.8
Inheritance Test	failed	5.5	failed	11.7	failed	8.6
Indexing Test	failed	9.9	failed	13.0	failed	11.5
Graph (Binary Tree) Test	failed	5.9	failed	5.2	failed	5.6
Multithreading Test	failed	10.7	failed	0.0000	failed	5.3
All Tests	failed	8.2	failed	8.0	failed	8.1

DataNucleus with HSQLDB server has failed in 12 tests (see exceptions).

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

Retrieval Size =>	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	failed	1.9	failed	8.2	failed	5.0
Element Collection Test	failed	0.38	failed	0.36	failed	0.37
Inheritance Test	failed	2.2	failed	7.0	failed	4.6
Indexing Test	failed	1.7	failed	7.9	failed	4.8
Graph (Binary Tree) Test	failed	0.22	failed	0.42	failed	0.32
Multithreading Test	failed	4.0	failed	8.0	failed	6.0
All Tests	failed	1.7	failed	5.3	failed	3.5

DataNucleus with HSQLDB server has failed in 12 tests (see exceptions).

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

Retrieval Size =>	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	failed	0.57	failed	2.6	failed	1.6
Element Collection Test	failed	0.85	failed	0.32	failed	0.58
Inheritance Test	failed	0.77	failed	3.3	failed	2.0
Indexing Test	failed	0.65	failed	2.7	failed	1.7
Multithreading Test	failed	4.0	failed	5.3	failed	4.7
All Tests	failed	1.4	failed	2.8	failed	2.1

DataNucleus with HSQLDB server has failed in 10 tests (see exceptions).

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

Transaction Size =>	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	failed	1.8	failed	2.5	failed	2.1
Element Collection Test	failed	1.5	failed	0.64	failed	1.1
Inheritance Test	failed	1.9	failed	3.2	failed	2.5
Indexing Test	failed	5.7	failed	3.4	failed	4.6
Graph (Binary Tree) Test	failed	0.70	failed	0.51	failed	0.60
Multithreading Test	failed	4.0	failed	2.3	failed	3.2
All Tests	failed	2.6	failed	2.1	failed	2.4

DataNucleus with HSQLDB server has failed in 12 tests (see exceptions).

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

Transaction Size =>	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	failed	15.8	failed	14.7	failed	15.2
Element Collection Test	failed	6.6	failed	0.74	failed	3.6
Inheritance Test	failed	17.5	failed	13.8	failed	15.7
Indexing Test	failed	20.3	failed	10.3	failed	15.3
Graph (Binary Tree) Test	failed	6.5	failed	7.9	failed	7.2
Multithreading Test	failed	23.0	failed	0.0000	failed	11.5
All Tests	failed	14.9	failed	7.9	failed	11.4

DataNucleus with HSQLDB server has failed in 12 tests (see exceptions).

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

Transaction/Retrieval Size	Few Entities		Many Entities		Average Score
	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server	DataNucleus HSQLDB server	Hibernate PostgreSQL server
Basic Person Test	failed	5.8	failed	7.7	failed	6.8
Element Collection Test	failed	3.5	failed	1.9	failed	2.7
Inheritance Test	failed	5.6	failed	7.8	failed	6.7
Indexing Test	failed	7.7	failed	7.5	failed	7.6
Graph (Binary Tree) Test	failed	3.3	failed	3.5	failed	3.4
Multithreading Test	failed	9.1	failed	3.1	failed	6.1
All Tests	failed	5.9	failed	5.3	failed	5.6

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