Oracle TimesTen: An In-Memory Database for Enterprise Applications

Letter from the Editor - in - Chief Bulletin Matters

In-memory databases can provide a significant performance advantage over disk-oriented databases since they avoid disk IO, and since their storage managers are built and optimized for complete memory residency. In this paper we describe the functionality of the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database – a full-featured memory optimized relational database. With SQL-92 and ACID compliance, TimesTen is...

Extreme Performance Using Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database

Distributed Architecture of Oracle Database In-memory

Over the last few years, the information technology industry has witnessed revolutions in multiple dimensions. Increasing ubiquitous sources of data have posed two connected challenges to data management solutions – processing unprecedented volumes of data, and providing ad-hoc real-time analysis in mainstream production data stores without compromising regular transactional workload performanc...

Fast In-Memory Reasoner for Oracle NoSQL Database EE: Uncover hidden relationships that exist in your enterprise data

Graph databases and NoSQL databases, two very important topics in Big Data, have gained popularity in recent years due to their unique characteristics in their horizontally scale-out capability and flexible schema or schema-free design. The recent release of OWL-DBC , an adaptor between Oracle Spatial and Graph 2 and the TrOWL reasoner [2, 1], has built a tight integration between one of the le...

Engineering Database Hardware and Software Together

Since its inception, Oracle’s database software primarily ran on customer configured off-the-shelf hardware. A decade ago, the architecture of conventional systems started to become a bottleneck and Oracle developed the Oracle Exadata Database Machine to optimize the full hardware and software stack for database workloads. Exadata is based on a scale-out architecture of database servers and sto...