diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8c9929996..6b36f4683 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -236,6 +236,11 @@
             <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
             <version>2.13.4</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
+            <artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
+            <version>5.0.1</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
             <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/ThreadBench.java b/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/ThreadBench.java
index 568902fec..96409d4e1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/ThreadBench.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/ThreadBench.java
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ private int finalizeWorkers(ArrayList<Thread> workerThreads) throws InterruptedE
 
             workers.get(i).tearDown();
         }
-
+        this.workers.get(0).getBenchmark().closeDataSource();
         return requests;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/api/BenchmarkModule.java b/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/api/BenchmarkModule.java
index 5c4762d71..2751c185d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/api/BenchmarkModule.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/api/BenchmarkModule.java
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig;
+import com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -73,6 +75,14 @@ public abstract class BenchmarkModule {
     public BenchmarkModule(WorkloadConfiguration workConf) {
         this.workConf = workConf;
         this.dialects = new StatementDialects(workConf);
+        if (workConf.getXmlConfig().getBoolean("use_hikari_pool", false)) {
+            try {
+                createDataSource();
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                LOG.error("Failed to create Data Source", e);
+                throw e;
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -80,8 +90,9 @@ public BenchmarkModule(WorkloadConfiguration workConf) {
     // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     public final Connection makeConnection() throws SQLException {
-
-        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(workConf.getUsername())) {
+        if (workConf.getXmlConfig().getBoolean("use_hikari_pool", false)) {
+            return hikariDataSource.getConnection();
+        } else if (StringUtils.isEmpty(workConf.getUsername())) {
             return DriverManager.getConnection(workConf.getUrl());
         } else {
             return DriverManager.getConnection(
@@ -91,6 +102,28 @@ public final Connection makeConnection() throws SQLException {
         }
     }
 
+    protected HikariDataSource hikariDataSource;
+
+    public void createDataSource() {
+        HikariConfig config = new HikariConfig();
+        config.setJdbcUrl(workConf.getUrl());
+        if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(workConf.getUsername())) {
+            config.setUsername(workConf.getUsername());
+            config.setPassword(workConf.getPassword());
+            /* take max_pool_size from xmlConfig, default is = number of terminals*/
+            config.setMaximumPoolSize(workConf.getXmlConfig().getInt("max_pool_size", workConf.getTerminals()));
+            config.setMinimumIdle(5);
+        }
+        config.setTransactionIsolation(workConf.getIsolationString());
+        hikariDataSource = new HikariDataSource(config);
+    }
+
+    public void closeDataSource() {
+        if (workConf.getXmlConfig().getBoolean("use_hikari_pool", false)) {
+            this.hikariDataSource.close();
+        }
+    }
+
     // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
     // IMPLEMENTING CLASS INTERFACE
     // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/api/Worker.java b/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/api/Worker.java
index de19b6a92..4ea5e15da 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/api/Worker.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/api/Worker.java
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ public abstract class Worker<T extends BenchmarkModule> implements Runnable {
     private boolean seenDone = false;
     public final FeaturebenchAdditionalResults featurebenchAdditionalResults = new FeaturebenchAdditionalResults();
 
+    public boolean usingHikari = false;
+    public boolean autoCommitVal = false;
+
     public Worker(T benchmark, int id) {
         this.id = id;
         this.benchmark = benchmark;
@@ -72,13 +75,14 @@ public Worker(T benchmark, int id) {
         this.workloadState = this.configuration.getWorkloadState();
         this.currStatement = null;
         this.transactionTypes = this.configuration.getTransTypes();
-        boolean autoCommitVal = false;
+        this.autoCommitVal = false;
+        this.usingHikari = this.getWorkloadConfiguration().getXmlConfig().getBoolean("use_hikari_pool", false);
         if (this.benchmark.getBenchmarkName().equalsIgnoreCase("featurebench") &&
             this.benchmark.getWorkloadConfiguration().getXmlConfig().containsKey("microbenchmark/properties/setAutoCommit")) {
             autoCommitVal = this.benchmark.getWorkloadConfiguration().getXmlConfig().getBoolean("microbenchmark/properties/setAutoCommit");
             this.isFeaturebenchWorkload = true;
         }
-        if (!this.configuration.getNewConnectionPerTxn()) {
+        if (!this.configuration.getNewConnectionPerTxn() && !usingHikari) {
             try {
                 this.conn = this.benchmark.makeConnection();
                 this.conn.setAutoCommit(autoCommitVal);
@@ -198,7 +202,16 @@ public final void run() {
 
         // Invoke initialize callback
         try {
-            this.initialize();
+            if (!this.usingHikari)
+                this.initialize();
+            else {
+                if(this.conn == null || this.conn.isClosed()) {
+                    this.conn = this.getBenchmark().makeConnection();
+                    this.conn.setAutoCommit(this.autoCommitVal);
+                    this.initialize();
+                    this.conn.close();
+                }
+            }
         } catch (Throwable ex) {
             throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected error when initializing " + this, ex);
         }
@@ -282,11 +295,27 @@ public final void run() {
                     }
                 }
 
-                long start = System.nanoTime();
-
-                doWork(configuration.getDatabaseType(), transactionType);
-
-                long end = System.nanoTime();
+                long start = 0;
+                long end = 0;
+                if (!this.usingHikari) {
+                    start = System.nanoTime();
+                    doWork(configuration.getDatabaseType(), transactionType);
+                    end = System.nanoTime();
+                }
+                else {
+                    try {
+                        if (this.conn == null || this.conn.isClosed()) {
+                            this.conn = this.getBenchmark().makeConnection();
+                            this.conn.setAutoCommit(this.autoCommitVal);
+                            start = System.nanoTime();
+                            doWork(configuration.getDatabaseType(), transactionType);
+                            end = System.nanoTime();
+                            this.conn.close();
+                        }
+                    } catch(SQLException ex) {
+                        throw new RuntimeException("Failed to connect to database", ex);
+                    }
+                }
 
                 // PART 4: Record results
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/benchmarks/featurebench/FeatureBenchWorker.java b/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/benchmarks/featurebench/FeatureBenchWorker.java
index b6c8ae1c9..0db3ed014 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/benchmarks/featurebench/FeatureBenchWorker.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/oltpbenchmark/benchmarks/featurebench/FeatureBenchWorker.java
@@ -284,6 +284,16 @@ protected TransactionStatus executeWork(Connection conn, TransactionType txnType
 
     @Override
     public void tearDown() {
+        if (this.usingHikari) {
+            try {
+                if (this.conn == null || this.conn.isClosed()) {
+                    this.conn = this.getBenchmark().makeConnection();
+                    this.conn.setAutoCommit(true);
+                }
+            } catch (SQLException ex) {
+                throw new RuntimeException("Failed to connect to database", ex);
+            }
+        }
         synchronized (FeatureBenchWorker.class) {
             if (!this.configuration.getNewConnectionPerTxn() && this.configuration.getWorkloadState().getGlobalState() == State.EXIT && !isPGStatStatementCollected.get()) {
 
@@ -349,6 +359,15 @@ public void tearDown() {
                 }
             }
         }
+        if(usingHikari) {
+            try {
+                if (this.conn != null && !this.conn.isClosed()) {
+                    this.conn.close();
+                }
+            } catch (SQLException ex) {
+                throw new RuntimeException("Failed to connect to database", ex);
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     private JSONObject callPGStats() throws SQLException{