I have an application that uses a database of about 15,000 Java objects, which I have to read every time the application starts.  Originally I've been using JSON to store the data, but that has a few issues, mostly that it's slow (it can take 8-10 seconds to read all the objects on my lower-end machine) and also, it's very common for the objects in my database to have fields that point to the same object.  Java serialization handles this by using references to the same object, whereas with JSON, I just have to write the state of each object and then intern them during reading.  This also bloats the file size.The contents of this database will be updated fairly infrequently (maybe about once a month or so).  I've heard from pretty much every source that Java serialization is always a poor choice for long-term storage, and I understand why.  Given these conditions, however, is there a good reason not to use Java serialization here?
Java Serialization for long-ish-term storage
java;json;serialization