Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database (TimesTen) is a relational database that is memory-optimized for fast response and throughput. The database resides entirely in memory at runtime and is persisted to the file system.
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database in classic mode, or TimesTen Classic, refers to single-instance and replicated databases (as in previous releases).
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database in grid mode, or TimesTen Scaleout, refers to a multiple-instance distributed database. TimesTen Scaleout is a grid of interconnected hosts running instances that work together to provide fast access, fault tolerance, and high availability for in-memory data.
TimesTen alone refers to both classic and grid modes (such as in references to TimesTen utilities, releases, distributions, installations, actions taken by the database, and functionality within the database).
TimesTen Application-Tier Database Cache, or TimesTen Cache, is an Oracle Database Enterprise Edition option. TimesTen Cache is ideal for caching performance-critical subsets of an Oracle database into cache tables within a TimesTen database for improved response time in the application tier. Cache tables can be read-only or updatable. Applications read and update the cache tables using standard Structured Query Language (SQL) while data synchronization between the TimesTen database and the Oracle database is performed automatically. TimesTen Cache offers all of the functionality and performance of TimesTen Classic, plus the additional functionality for caching Oracle Database tables.
TimesTen Replication features, available with TimesTen Classic or TimesTen Cache, enable high availability.
TimesTen supports standard application interfaces JDBC, ODBC, and ODP.NET; Oracle interfaces PL/SQL, OCI, and Pro*C/C++; and the TimesTen TTClasses library for C++.
High availability for the in-memory database is provided through transactional replication. This book covers how to configure, manage, and use replication.
This document is intended for application developers and system administrators who use and administer TimesTen Replication. To work with this guide, you should understand how database systems work. You should also have knowledge of SQL (Structured Query Language) and either ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) or JDBC (JavaDataBase Connectivity).
TimesTen documentation is available at:
https://docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1
Oracle Database documentation is also available on the Oracle documentation website. This may be especially useful for Oracle Database features that TimesTen supports but does not attempt to fully document, such as OCI and Pro*C/C++.
TimesTen Classic is supported on multiple platforms. Unless otherwise indicated, the information in this guide applies to all supported platforms. The term Windows refers to all supported Windows platforms. The term UNIX applies to all supported UNIX platforms. The term Linux is used separately. See "Platforms and Compilers" in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release Notes (README.html) in your installation directory for specific platform versions supported by TimesTen.
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In TimesTen documentation, the terms "data store" and "database" are equivalent. Both terms refer to the TimesTen database.This document uses the following text conventions:
| Convention | Meaning |
|---|---|
| boldface | Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary. |
| italic | Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values. |
monospace |
Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter. |
italic monospace |
Italic monospace type indicates a placeholder or a variable in a code example for which you specify or use a particular value. For example:
Replace |
| [ ] | Square brackets indicate that an item in a command line is optional. |
| { } | Curly braces indicated that you must choose one of the items separated by a vertical bar ( | ) in a command line. |
| | | A vertical bar (or pipe) separates alternative arguments. |
| . . . | An ellipsis (. . .) after an argument indicates that you may use more than one argument on a single command line. |
| % or $ | The percent sign or dollar sign indicates the UNIX shell prompt, depending on the shell that is used. |
| # | The number (or pound) sign indicates the UNIX root prompt. |
TimesTen documentation uses these variables to identify path, file and user names:
| Convention | Meaning |
|---|---|
installation_dir |
The path that represents the directory where the current release of TimesTen is installed. |
timesten_home |
The path that represents the home directory of a TimesTen instance. |
release or rr |
The first two parts in a release number, with or without the dot. The first two parts of a release number represent a major TimesTen release. For example, 181 or 18.1 represents TimesTen Release 18.1. |
DSN |
The data source name. |
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TimesTen release numbers are reflected in items such as TimesTen utility output, file names and directory names. These details are subject to change with every minor or patch release, and the documentation cannot always be up to date. The documentation seeks primarily to show the basic form of output, file names, directory names and other code that may include release numbers. You can confirm the current release number by looking at the Release Notes or executing thettVersion utility.For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.
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