TimesTen is a high performance event-processing software component that enables applications to capture, store, use, and distribute information in real-time, while preserving transactional integrity and continuous availability.
TimesTen is designed to operate most efficiently in an application’s address space. Using standard interfaces, TimesTen can be integrated into an application to serve as either a stand-alone relational database management system (RDBMS) or an application-tier cache that works in conjunction with a traditional disk-based RDBMS, such as the Oracle database. TimesTen can be configured to operate entirely in memory, or it can be configured for disk-based environments to log and checkpoint data to disk.
TimesTen is available in a specially-licensed edition, TimesTen for Exalytics, to support Oracle's Exalytics BI Machine. This version of TimesTen makes available various analytic functions, as well as columnar compression. These features are not available in standard TimesTen.