Spring Data Module

Question 1

What is Connection Pooling?

Answer 1

Connection pooling is a technique that was pioneered by database vendors to allow multiple clients to share a cached set of connection objects that provide access to a database resource.

Question 2

Why should we use Connection Pooling?

Answer 2

Creating and Closing connection is a heavy operation. Connection Pooling give us huge performance improvements.

Question 3

What is a DataSource?

Answer 3

A DataSource is part of the JDBC specification and is a generalized connection factory. It lets a container or a framework hide connection pooling and transaction management issues from the application code.