Poor jdbc query performance

I created a simple Java program that executes on the same machine as my Vertica server, opens a JDBC connection (7.0 jar) to my Vertica server (7.0), and runs the query:

Select 1 + 1

Independent of the connection time, this consistently takes 75 ms to complete. 20 ms of that time is to read the single column value result. The query_results table says that the query duration was 7 ms.

If I do the exact same experiment with a MySQL server it takes 4ms.

If I use a SQL client tool like Aqua Studio it takes 75 ms (not surprising since it also is use JDBC underneath).

If I run vsql on the Vertica server it takes 8 ms.

Is there some special configuration that I need to do when using JDBC to connect to Vertica. Because of the MySQL test result I don't believe there is a problem with my test program.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Lee Jensen