Why 'Quarkus' chose 'Agroal' instead of 'HikariCP' as the preferred datasource and connection pooling implementation?

Question

As per the Quarkus documentation :

In Quarkus, the preferred datasource and connection pooling implementation is Agroal.

But, I don't see any review or comparison of 'Agroal' with the well known JDBC Connection Pooling implementation 'HikariCP'.

What makes 'Agroal' better than 'HikariCP', except that BOTH Quarkus and Agroal are from RedHat?

Answer 1

With Agroal you can update configuration on runtime

Configuration property overridable at runtime

While Hikari doesn't support it

You can't dynamically update the property values by resetting them on the config object

Another reason is Quarkus integration

features first class integration with the other components in Quarkus, such as security, transaction management components, health metrics