Connection pooling options with JDBC: DBCP vs C3P0

Question

What is the best connection pooling library available for Java/JDBC?

I\'m considering the 2 main candidates (free / open-source):

• Apache DBCP - http:/

Answer 1

We came across a situation where we needed to introduce connection pool and we had 4 options in front of us.

• DBCP2
• C3P0
• Tomcat JDBC
• HikariCP

We carried out some tests and comparison based on our criteria and decided to go for HikariCP. Read this article which explains why we chose HikariCP.