Installing and using MySQL driver in Linux

apt-get install libmysql-java
 
jdbc2xml ... --jdbc-drivers /usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar

Optimizing INSERT performance

Unfortunately mysqld can be quite slow when INSERTing large numbers of rows.

We found the hint from this Stackoverflow article quite effective:

The innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit setting should be set to 2 (in the [mysqld] section of my.cnf):

[mysqld]
# ...
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2

Unfortunaltely the MySQL server has to be restarted for this change to take effect.