| Today, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle | | | | Wang, Vice President Product Marketing, Oracle. "The |
| TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g and Oracle | | | | tight integration between Oracle Database 11g and the |
| In-Memory Database Cache 11g, the database caching | | | | Oracle 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 has | | | | existing applications with minimal changes to the |
| helped transform the global trading environment | | | | applications. And, the new Database Cache Grid |
| through business and technology innovations," said Don | | | | capabilities enable customers to scale their middle-tier |
| Henderson, Chief Technology Officer, NYFIX. "One of | | | | platform incrementally, as needed by their |
| the key technology drivers in today's equities trading | | | | performance and capacity requirements." |
| market is low latency. Our clients want the ability to | | | | Oracle In-Memory Database Cache is fully integrated |
| place orders and get immediate responses so they | | | | with 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 and | | | | Oracle 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 and | | | | Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is a |
| reliable response times they demand." | | | | stand-alone in-memory relational database with full |
| This latest release features major enhancements | | | | persistence and recoverability. Oracle In-Memory |
| including performance and scale-out through the | | | | Database Cache is the pre-integrated SQL cache |
| Database Cache Grid; support for PL/SQL, Oracle Call | | | | database option for the Oracle Database. Both |
| Interface (OCI), and Pro*C embedded SQL | | | | products are designed for deployment in the |
| Programming language; and rock solid reliability and high | | | | middle-tier. |
| availability through automated failover via integration | | | | Improved 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 with | | | | applications with extreme performance by caching |
| little lag time," said Tomohiro Takeda, Director, Strategy | | | | data in memory for fast and consistent response |
| & Planning, Passenger Service Systems, IT | | | | times. The in-memory caches are transactional |
| Service & Planning, Japan Airlines. "The | | | | read-write caches with full persistence, recoverability, |
| combination of Oracle Database with the Oracle | | | | and automatic data synchronization with the Oracle |
| In-Memory Database Cache option has allowed us to | | | | Database. |
| exponentially increase our number of server | | | | New 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 on | | | | of in-memory database caching with online addition |
| the fast and reliable service our customers have come | | | | removal of cache grid nodes without service |
| to expect from Japan Airlines." | | | | interruption. It also provides data location transparency |
| These new product capabilities further enable | | | | so that applications need not know where the data |
| enterprises to benefit from the extreme performance | | | | resides; each cache grid node can access data from |
| that in-memory database caching in the middle-tier | | | | its local memory, from another cache grid node, or |
| offers. | | | | from the backend Oracle Database. Database Cache |
| "Oracle continues to add important enhancements to | | | | Grid provides transactional consistency across cache |
| the Oracle TimesTen product, including tighter | | | | nodes with high availability and data synchronization |
| integration with its flagship Oracle Database. The | | | | with 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 of | | | | of the Oracle In-Memory Database Cache by existing |
| database caching technology with minimal changes to | | | | Oracle 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 and | | | | availability out-of-the-box, with automated failover of |
| reliability. These are critical elements for industries with | | | | the in-memory databases and applications. Integration |
| real-time data management requirements," said Carl | | | | with Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Data Guard |
| Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC. | | | | achieves near zero-downtime with virtually no data |
| "The demand for high-performance applications | | | | loss in case of failure. |
| continues to expand across industries," said Rex | | | | |