Why is the DAO method so slow in ORMLite?

Question

I have a method that looks like this

public Dao<ModelStore, Integer> getDaoStore() throws SQLException {
    return BaseDaoImpl.createDao(getConnectionSource(), ModelStore.class);
}

when i call getDaoStore it is quite a lengthy process. In my log's i can see that the GC runs after every call to this, so I'm guessing there's a lot going on with this call.

Is there a way to speed this up?