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| Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation |
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| Stable release | 18.1.4
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| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | Relational database management system |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | TimesTen Home Page |
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is an in-memory, relational database management system with persistence and high availability. Originally designed and implemented at Hewlett-Packard labs in Palo Alto, California, TimesTen spun out into a separate startup in 1996 and was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2005.[1]
TimesTen databases are persistent and can be highly available. Because it is an in-memory database it provides very low latency and high throughput. It provides standard relational database APIs and interfaces such as the SQL and PL/SQL languages. Applications access TimesTen using standard database APIs such as ODBC and JDBC.
TimesTen can be used as a standalone database, and is also often used as a cache in front of another relational database such as Oracle Database.[2] It is frequently used in very high volume OLTP applications such as prepaid telecom billing and financial trading. It is also used for read-intensive applications such as very large websites and location-based services.
TimesTen can be configured as a shared-nothing clustered system (TimesTen Scaleout) supporting databases much larger than the RAM available on a single machine, and providing scalable throughput and high availability. It can also be configured in replicated active/standby pairs of databases (TimesTen Classic) providing high availability and microsecond response time.
TimesTen runs on Linux, Solaris and AIX and also supports client applications running on Windows and macOS.[3]