Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5

Miscellaneous

The following are general Hibernate best practices for achieving better performance in your application:

• Avoid enabling generate_statistics on the production system; rather, analyze issues by enabling generate_statistics on a staging or a replica of the production system.
• Hibernate always updates all database columns, even though we update one or a few columns only. All of the columns in the UPDATE statement would take more time than a few columns. In order to achieve high performance and avoid using all of the columns in an UPDATE statement, only include the columns that are actually modified and use the @DynamicUpdate annotation on an entity. This annotation tells Hibernate to generate a new SQL statement for each update ...