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TimesTen is a database
Database

A database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. The structure is achieved by organizing the data according to a database model....
 product from Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products ? particularly database management systems. Through organic growth and a number of high-profile acquisitions, Oracle enlarged its share of the software market....
. It provides a family of real-time
Real-time computing

In computer science, real-time computing is the study of Computer hardware and computer software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"?i.e., operational deadlines from event to system response....
 infrastructure software products designed for low latency, high-volume data, event and transaction
Database transaction

A database transaction comprises a unit of work performed within a database management system against a database, and treated in a coherent and reliable way independent of other transactions....
 management. Unlike conventional infrastructure software, TimesTen’s products are optimized for deployment within the application tier. They are used in the telecom and financial markets. They are also being used more broadly for mid-tier data management, for example in e-commerce applications and service-oriented architecture
Service-oriented architecture

In computing, service-oriented architecture provides methods for systems development and System integration where systems group functionality around business processes and package these as Interoperability Service ....
 (SOA) infrastructures, because of their performance, low maintenance, flexibility, and reliability.

sTen's core DataServer product uses in-memory database management technology to speed access to data.






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TimesTen is a database
Database

A database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. The structure is achieved by organizing the data according to a database model....
 product from Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products ? particularly database management systems. Through organic growth and a number of high-profile acquisitions, Oracle enlarged its share of the software market....
. It provides a family of real-time
Real-time computing

In computer science, real-time computing is the study of Computer hardware and computer software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"?i.e., operational deadlines from event to system response....
 infrastructure software products designed for low latency, high-volume data, event and transaction
Database transaction

A database transaction comprises a unit of work performed within a database management system against a database, and treated in a coherent and reliable way independent of other transactions....
 management. Unlike conventional infrastructure software, TimesTen’s products are optimized for deployment within the application tier. They are used in the telecom and financial markets. They are also being used more broadly for mid-tier data management, for example in e-commerce applications and service-oriented architecture
Service-oriented architecture

In computing, service-oriented architecture provides methods for systems development and System integration where systems group functionality around business processes and package these as Interoperability Service ....
 (SOA) infrastructures, because of their performance, low maintenance, flexibility, and reliability.

Product information

TimesTen's core DataServer product uses in-memory database management technology to speed access to data. Indexing
Index (database)

A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of operations on a Table . Indexes can be created using one or more column , providing the basis for both rapid random look ups and efficient access of ordered records....
, query
Query

In general, a query is a form of questioning, in a line of inquiry. A query may also refer to:* The Queries, a set of 31 questions outlined by Isaac Newton beginning in 1704...
 optimization, and storage management, for example, are designed specially for in-memory data access. The result is high throughput and low, predictable response times, even on commodity hardware. The DataServer product also incorporates replication
Replication (computer science)

Replication is the process of sharing information so as to ensure consistency between redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or accessibility....
 facilities, non-blocking operation, and an event-notification mechanism that works together with materialized views to convey changes to other systems.

TimesTen also offers a Cache product that interoperates with an Oracle database
Oracle database

The Oracle Database consists of a relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation. , Oracle had become a major presence in database computing....
 backend, using one of several protocols, to cache
Cache

In computer science, a cache is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive to fetch or to compute, compared to the cost of reading the cache....
 frequently used data in TimesTen. SQL
SQL

SQL is a database computer language designed for the retrieval and management of data in relational database management systems , database schema creation and modification, and database object access control management....
 predicates can be used to specify what data is cached, or data can be loaded into the cache on demand (and later automatically aged out). Data can be changed in the cache, with writes being propagated synchronously or asynchronously back to Oracle.

TimesTen's third product, Transact, uses asynchronous technologies such as replication
Replication

Replication may refer to:Science* Self-replication, the process in which an entity makes a copy of itself.* Self-replicating machines* DNA replication or DNA Synthesis, the process of copying a double stranded DNA molecule...
, messaging, and buffered disk writes, combined with intelligent sequencing and replay, to provide synchronous guarantees with no waits.

TimesTen products run on the major Unix
Unix

Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of American Telephone & Telegraph employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna....
/Linux
Linux

Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL license...
 platforms and on various Windows
Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
 platforms, in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes. Standard support includes ODBC and JDBC interfaces and the SQL
SQL

SQL is a database computer language designed for the retrieval and management of data in relational database management systems , database schema creation and modification, and database object access control management....
 query language.

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