It’s Faster. There is nothing faster. There is nothing more correct. HikariCP is a “zero-overhead” production-quality connection pool. Using a stub-JDBC implementation to isolate and measure the overhead of HikariCP, comparative benchmarks were performed on a commodity PC. Just drop it in and let your code run like its pants are on fire. Java 8 maven artifact: <dependency> <groupId>com.zaxxer</gro