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This guide provides basic conceptual information about TimesTen and its features.

Audience

This guide is intended for anyone interested in knowing conceptual information about the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database (TimesTen). TimesTen is a relational database that is memory-optimized for fast response and high throughput. The database resides entirely in memory at runtime and is persisted to the file system.

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