SQL LIMIT vs. JDBC Statement setMaxRows. Which one is better?

Question

I want to select the Top 10 records for a given query. So, I can use one of the following options:

• Using the JDBC Statement.setMaxRows() method
• Using LIMI

Answer 1

The advantage of setmaxrows is that you can create universal statements, valid in Postgres, Oracle, Mysql etc As Oracle is using rownum syntax, postgres - limit, msqsql - top

Speedwise it seems like no difference.