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Oracle TimesTen
In-Memory Database

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is a memory-optimized relational

database that provides applications with extremely fast response time and
very high throughput as required by many applications in a wide range of
industries. Deployed in the application tier, TimesTen databases reside
entirely in physical memory with persistence to disk storage for recoverability.
Applications access the in-memory databases using standard SQL interfaces.
High availability is provided through real-time transactional replication.
INDUSTRY LEADING FAST AND
RELIABLE SQL IN-MEMORY
DAT ABASE
KEY FEATURES

Real-Time Performance
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database (TimesTen) delivers real-time performance by
changing the assumptions around where data resides at runtime. By managing data in

Low latency

Microsecond response time

Multi-user concurrency

Durability and Persistence

In addition to using the conventional client/server connections to the database,

Transactional parallel replication

applications may further improve on transaction response time by embedding the

Supports SQL and PL/SQL via

ODBC, JDBC, ODP.NET, OCI and
Pro*C/C++

TimesTen database within the application, thus eliminating inter-process communication

memory, and optimizing data structures and access algorithms accordingly, database
operations execute with maximum efficiency, achieving dramatic gains in
responsiveness and throughput, even compared to a fully cached disk-based RDBMS.

and network overheads.

KEY BENEFITS

Real time performance

Consistent response time

Automated database failover

Zero data loss

Supports OLTP and analytic

workloads

Figure 1. Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database

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Real-time data management has two performance dimensions response time and
throughput. With TimesTen, a transaction that reads a database record can take 2.37
microseconds, and transactions that update or insert a record can take less than 8
microseconds (measured on Oracle Linux running Intel Xeon E5-2680 2.7GHz
REAL-TIME DAT A MANAGEMENT FOR
PERFORMANCE-CRIT ICAL
APPLICAT IONS

Telecom and networking

Capital markets

Defense and intelligence

Travel and reservations

Call Center applications

Self-service portals

Smart Metering

Gaming

Real Time Business Intelligence

Fraud detection

processors). Consequently, throughput is measured in tens to hundreds of thousands

of transactions per second, using commodity hardware.

Figure 2. Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Average Response Time

Multi-User Concurrency, Persistence and Durability

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database uses memory-optimized data layout and access
methods for highly concurrent workloads. Applications access TimesTen databases
using standard SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC, ODBC, ODP.NET, Oracle Call Interface
(OCI), and Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces. While the best response time is
achieved with TimesTen running in-process with the application, conventional
client/server access is used when a database is shared by applications running on a
number of servers.
Oracle TimesTen databases are fully persistent and recoverable. Durability is achieved
through a combination of transaction logging and database checkpointing to disk.

Workloads
TimesTen is suitable for use by response-time critical OLTP (online transaction
processing) applications as well as analytic applications for real-time decision-making.
Example of OLTP applications include call processing, session management, onlinecharging, billing and rating management in telecommunications, trading platforms in
financial services, high volume Web applications, travel and airline reservation systems,
smart metering, gaming and many others. Examples of analytic applications include
business intelligence interactive dashboard visualization, risk management, real-time
fraud detection, and others.

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FLEXIBLE REPLICAT ION

Active Standby

Active Standby with Read-only

Subscribers

Asynchronous and synchronous

replication

High Availability
Availability is an essential requirement for most real-time applications. Industries that
operate 24x7, such as telecommunications, and global systems that are Webaccessible, such as travel and reservations sites, cannot tolerate service downtime.
Securities trading systems must remain continuously available while financial markets

Parallel replication for high throughput

are open. The more real-time the system, the more likely it needs to be highly available.

Streaming TCP/IP for optimized LAN

and WAN support

TimesTen Replication uses memory-optimized, transactional replication technology over

a high-throughput low-latency network protocol for performance, reliability, and
robustness. Key functionalities include:

Asynchronous replication provides maximum performance, and decouples the

application from the subscriber receipt process of replicated elements.

Synchronous replication provides maximum availability and data consistency

between the active and standby databases; the application is blocked until the
transaction has been both received and committed on the standby database.

Hot read availability of the standby database; additional read capacity can be
provided by configuring additional read-only subscribers.

Parallel replication provides replication throughput scaling while maintaining

transaction execution order.

Automated failure detection and failover to the standby database, achieved by

seamless integration with Oracle Clusterware.

Online upgrade enables software upgrades without application down time.

Flexible configuration supports a range of topologies over LAN and WAN.

RELAT ED PRODUCTS

Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier

Database Cache

Oracle Exalytics

Oracle SQL Developer

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle Clusterware

Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache

For applications with existing data already residing in an Oracle database, caching a
performance-critical subset of the data into the TimesTen In-Memory Database is a
practical solution to improve application response time. Applications perform read/write
operations on the cache tables using SQL and PL/SQL with automatic persistence,
transactional consistency, and data synchronization with the Oracle Database. Oracle
TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache is a database option for the Oracle
Database, Enterprise Edition. See Oracle TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache
product data sheet for more information.

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