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光 HikariCP・A solid, high-performance, JDBC connection pool at last.
21 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 8 stories, 13 comments · first 2014-02-03 · latest 2025-12-02
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…was 348 TPS drops to 164 TPS! Tangentially I also highly recommend this article on pool sizing. https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-...
comment by andersmurphy · 2025-12-02 · in 100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite -
…> I did feel for them here: Thank you! That part was definitely the most frustrating. [1] https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP
comment by stopachka · 2025-01-30 · in A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime -
Looks like HikariCP is also awaiting fixes for this https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/pull/2055
comment by tveita · 2024-01-17 · in We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres -
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About Pool Sizingstory by freedude · 2023-09-05 · 0 comments
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…to other libraries trying to accomplish the same thing. It is not in the clojure space though. https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP
comment by keule · 2022-08-04 · in Art of README (2020) -
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How big should your connection pool be?story by dnag · 2021-04-30 · 0 comments
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About Connection Pool Sizingstory by mooreds · 2021-02-12 · 0 comments
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Related, about sizing DB connection (counterintuitively): https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-...
comment by wiradikusuma · 2021-01-05 · in Understanding Connections and Pools -
…load can be very wasteful of CPU as database load increase, due to the cost of context switching. https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-... dives into that.
comment by dub · 2020-12-27 · in API pagination design -
…of it and reduce number of connections. HikariCP[1] talks about it and is database independent. [1] https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-... Edit: looks like the video in the article is no longer there, but found one…
comment by takeda · 2019-12-11 · in Odyssey: Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler -
…for web applications and can work well even if your pool on application side is misconfigured. [1] https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-...
comment by takeda · 2019-12-11 · in Odyssey: Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler -
…for MySQL" For the curious, HikariCP provides suggested JDBC config for MySQL[1] as well. [1] https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/MySQL-Confi...
comment by virtualwhys · 2018-11-12 · in About Database Connection Pool Sizing -
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About Database Connection Pool Sizingstory by zyngaro · 2018-11-11 · 29 comments
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…pre-reading to this article is Brett Wooldridge's (of HikariCP) article on connection pool sizing: https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-... An important consideration is that increasing the pool size many times above…
comment by sk5t · 2018-10-15 · in How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database -
Comment from HikariCP: https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/issues/1040#issu...
comment by compiotr · 2017-12-06 · in MariaDB quietly releases mariadb/mysql driver-level connection pool -
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光 HikariCP・A solid high-performance JDBC connection pool at laststory by hepha1979 · 2017-05-05 · 0 comments
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光 HikariCP・A solid high-performance JDBC connection pool at laststory by kundiis · 2016-04-01 · 0 comments
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you should replace c3p0 by hikaricp https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP
comment by yenda · 2015-12-14 · in Clojure at a Real Estate Portal -
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Show HN: High performance JDBC connection poolstory by CSDude · 2015-02-02 · 0 comments
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…mean a much smaller pool is optimal, to avoid unnecessary context switching, among other things. https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-...
comment by sk5t · 2015-01-05 · in Now available: auto-scaling PostgreSQL deployments -
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Down the Rabbit Holestory by latchkey · 2014-02-03 · 1 comment