I am working on a latency sensitive part of an application, basically i will receive a network event transform the data and then insert all the data into the DB. After profiling i see that basically all my time is spent trying to save the data. here is the code

private void insertAllData(Collection<Data> dataItems)
{
    long start_time = System.currentTimeMillis();
    long save_time = 0;
    long commit_time = 0;
    Transaction tx = null;
    try
    {
        Session s = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
        s.setCacheMode(CacheMode.IGNORE);
        s.setFlushMode(FlushMode.NEVER);
        tx = s.beginTransaction();
        for(Data data : dataItems)
        {
            s.saveOrUpdate(data);
        }
        save_time = System.currentTimeMillis();
        tx.commit();
        s.flush();
        s.clear();
    }
    catch(HibernateException ex)
    {
        if(tx != null)
            tx.rollback();
    }
    commit_time = System.currentTimeMillis();
    System.out.println("Save: " + (save_time - start_time));
    System.out.println("Commit: " + (commit_time - save_time));
    System.out.println();
}

The size of the collection is always less than 20. here is the timing data that i see:

Save: 27
Commit: 9

Save: 27
Commit: 9

Save: 26
Commit: 9

Save: 36
Commit: 9

Save: 44
Commit: 0

This is confusing to me. I figure that the save should be quick and all the time should be spent on commit. but clearly I'm wrong. I have also tried removing the transaction (its not really necessary) but i saw worse times... I have set hibernate.jdbc.batch_size=20...

i need this operation to be as fast as possible, ideally there would only be one roundtrip to the database. How can i do this?