Oracle Announces TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g and In-Memory Database Cache 11g

Today, Oracle announced the availability of OracleWang, Vice President Product Marketing, Oracle. "The
TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g and Oracletight integration between Oracle Database 11g and the
In-Memory Database Cache 11g, the database cachingOracle In-Memory Database Cache option allows
option for Oracle Database 11g.customers to obtain significant performance boosts to
"As a pioneer in electronic trading solutions, NYFIX hasexisting applications with minimal changes to the
helped transform the global trading environmentapplications. And, the new Database Cache Grid
through business and technology innovations," said Doncapabilities enable customers to scale their middle-tier
Henderson, Chief Technology Officer, NYFIX. "One ofplatform incrementally, as needed by their
the key technology drivers in today's equities tradingperformance and capacity requirements." 
market is low latency. Our clients want the ability toOracle In-Memory Database Cache is fully integrated
place orders and get immediate responses so theywith the Oracle infrastructure software stack including
can keep pace with fast-moving market opportunities.Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters,
Using the Oracle In-Memory Database Cache andOracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle SQL Developer,
Oracle Database to help run our Millennium dark pool,and components of Oracle Fusion Middleware. 
we are able to provide our clients with the fast andOracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is a
reliable response times they demand."stand-alone in-memory relational database with full
This latest release features major enhancementspersistence and recoverability. Oracle In-Memory
including performance and scale-out through theDatabase Cache is the pre-integrated SQL cache
Database Cache Grid; support for PL/SQL, Oracle Calldatabase option for the Oracle Database. Both
Interface (OCI), and Pro*C embedded SQLproducts are designed for deployment in the
Programming language; and rock solid reliability and highmiddle-tier.
availability through automated failover via integrationImproved Performance for Mission-Critical Applications
with Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Data Guard. Oracle In-Memory Database Cache provides
"Our customers demand fast and reliable service withapplications with extreme performance by caching
little lag time," said Tomohiro Takeda, Director, Strategydata in memory for fast and consistent response
& Planning, Passenger Service Systems, ITtimes. The in-memory caches are transactional
Service & Planning, Japan Airlines. "Theread-write caches with full persistence, recoverability,
combination of Oracle Database with the Oracleand automatic data synchronization with the Oracle
In-Memory Database Cache option has allowed us toDatabase.
exponentially increase our number of serverNew features include:
transactions for online search of domestic flight fare to- Database Cache Grid: enables incremental scale-out
over ten times faster and has enabled us to deliver onof in-memory database caching with online addition
the fast and reliable service our customers have comeremoval of cache grid nodes without service
to expect from Japan Airlines." interruption. It also provides data location transparency
These new product capabilities further enableso that applications need not know where the data
enterprises to benefit from the extreme performanceresides; each cache grid node can access data from
that in-memory database caching in the middle-tierits local memory, from another cache grid node, or
offers.from the backend Oracle Database. Database Cache
"Oracle continues to add important enhancements toGrid provides transactional consistency across cache
the Oracle TimesTen product, including tighternodes with high availability and data synchronization
integration with its flagship Oracle Database. Thewith the backend Oracle database.
Oracle In-Memory Database Cache option will enable- PL/SQL, OCI, and Pro*C Support: simplifies the use
Oracle Database users to realize the benefits ofof the Oracle In-Memory Database Cache by existing
database caching technology with minimal changes toOracle Database applications to improve application
the source code of their existing applications.response time and throughput.
Database caching is used to deliver improved- Cross-Tier High Availability: delivers improved high
performance while ensuring high availability andavailability out-of-the-box, with automated failover of
reliability. These are critical elements for industries withthe in-memory databases and applications. Integration
real-time data management requirements," said Carlwith Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Data Guard
Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC.achieves near zero-downtime with virtually no data
"The demand for high-performance applicationsloss in case of failure.
continues to expand across industries," said Rex