On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Vassilis Bekiaris < bekiar...@iconplatforms.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I think the introductory paragraphs in the Java Driver documentation [1] > provide good justification on the use of prepared statements: > > " ... but you can also use prepared statements, which only need to be > parsed once by the cluster, and then bind values to the variables and > execute the bound statement you read or write data to a cluster. > > In the previous tutorial, you added a loadData method which creates a new > statement for each INSERT, but you may also use prepared statements and > bind new values to the columns each time before execution. Doing this > increases performance, especially for repeated queries." > > Cheers! > > [1] > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/developer/java-driver/1.0/webhelp/index.html#java-driver/quick_start/qsSimpleClientBoundStatements_t.html > > > I think PreparedStatements should almost always be the recommended way (no stringification, performance, etc.). Except maybe statements that you are sure they'll be run only once, :- a) Alex Popescu @al3xandru
