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Fast, simple, reliable. HikariCP is a "zero-overhead" production ready JDBC connection pool. Coming in at roughly 70Kb, the library is very light. Read about [how we do it here ](https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/Down-the-Rabbit-Hole ).