Question

I have some major performance issues when asking a specific nhibernate question.

I have two tables, A and B where A has ~4000 rows and B has ~50 000 rows. The relation between A and B is one to many.

So the question that I ask needs to load all entites in A and then force load all entities in B because I want to aggregate over the entities in B.

I’m using fluenthibernate and have configured it to allow lazyloading, this works great for all other questions except this one where I have to load ~50000 entities, this number will likely grow with 50k a month. The question takes above a minute to ask now (probably even slower)

Obvious optimizations that I’ve already done: Only create one sessionfactory, lazyloading is not turned off.

So my question is this, will nhibernate be to slow in this aspect ? (that is, should I build my DAL with regular SQL questions rather than nhibernate?) or is there a way to improve the performance. This is a reporting application, so there won’t be many concurrent users but I still would like to make this question atleast take less then 5-10 seconds.

EDIT
Adding code:

public class ChatSessions
{
    public virtual int Id { get; set; }
    public virtual IList<ChatComments> Comments { get; set; }

    public ChatSessions()
    {
        Comments = new List<ChatComments>();
    }
}

public ChatCommentsMapping()
{
    Id(x => x.Id);
    References(x => x.ChatSession);
}

public class ChatComments
{
    public virtual int Id { get; set; }
    public virtual ChatSessions ChatSession{ get; set; }
    public virtual string Comment { get; set; }
    public virtual DateTime TimeStamp { get; set; }
    public virtual int CommentType { get; set; }
    public virtual bool Deleted { get; set; }
    public virtual string ChatAlias { get; set; }
}

public ChatSessionsMapping()
{
        Id(x => x.Id);
    References(x => x.ChatRoom)
        .Not.LazyLoad();
    HasMany(x => x.Comments)
        .Table("chatcomments");
}

Then In my repo I use this query:

public IList<ChatComments> GetChatCommentsBySession(int chatsessionid)
{
    using(var session = _factory.OpenSession())
    {
        var chatsession = session.Get<ChatSessions>(chatsessionid);
        NHibernateUtil.Initialize(chatsession.Comments);
        return chatsession.Comments;
    }
}

And that method gets called once for every Chatsession.

The query that I aggregate with then looks something like this:

foreach (var hour in groupedByHour){
        var datetime = hour.Sessions.First().StartTimeStamp;
    var dp = new DataPoint<DateTime, double>
        {
        YValue = hour.Sessions.Select(x =>
                         _chatCommentsRepo.GetChatCommentsBySession(x.Id).Count)
                 .Aggregate((counter,item) => counter += item),
        XValue = new DateTime(datetime.Year, datetime.Month, datetime.Day, datetime.Hour, 0, 0)
};

                datacollection.Add(dp);
            }

Answer 1

Selecting 50,000 rows of any size is not ever going to be quick, but consider using a subselect fetching strategory – it should work a lot better in your scenerio. Also, make sure you have an index for the foreign key in your database.

There’s an example of what could be happening at the NHProf site

EDIT: I’d thoroughly recommend NHProf if you’re doing any work with NHibernate – it’s a quick way to get to WIN.