How to speed up JDBC PreparedStatement MySQL batch inserts

If you ever need to batch-insert a lot of records into a MySQL/MariaDB database using the JDBC PreparedStatement (as in preparedStatement.executeBatch()) be sure to change the MySQL URL to use the rewriteBatchedStatements, as shown here:

"jdbc:mysql://localhost:8889/DATABASE?rewriteBatchedStatements=true"

For a recent project I needed to batch-insert about eleven million records into a MySQL database, and the runtime was about 55 minutes. Once I added rewriteBatchedStatements=true to the MySQL URL, the batch-insert time was reduced down to only three minutes. That one little change made all the difference.