we're comparing JTDS and Microsoft SQL Server for a Java EE application running on JBoss and we're finding that JTDS is from 30% to 50% faster, benchmarking the application in a high concurrence scenario and keeping exactly the same HW/SW but changing only the driver in the datasource configuration.
While we've seen a lot of favorable options towards JTDS and so we're thinking to go for it I'm still curious:
- Why is the JTDS driver so much faster?
- Why Microsoft never updated its driver to be fast as JTDS?
Comparison was made using the latest JDBC 3.0 version and the latest JTDS version and using a SQL Server 2008 running on a 16 core installation with dedicated SAN.