Preface

Oracle In-Memory Database Cache is an Oracle Database product option that is ideal for caching performance-critical subsets of an Oracle database into cache tables within TimesTen databases for improved response time in the application tier. Cache tables can be read-only or updatable. Applications read and update the cache tables using standard Structured Query Language (SQL) while data synchronization between the TimesTen database and the Oracle database is performed automatically.

Oracle In-Memory Database Cache offers applications the full generality and functionality of a relational database, the transparent maintenance of cache consistency with the Oracle database, and the real-time performance of an in-memory database.

Audience

This guide is for application developers who use and administer TimesTen, and for system administrators who configure and manage TimesTen databases that cache data from Oracle databases. To work with this guide, you should understand how relational database systems work. You should also have knowledge of SQL, and either Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), or Oracle Call Interface (OCI).

Conventions

TimesTen supports multiple platforms. Unless otherwise indicated, the information in this guide applies to all supported platforms. The term Windows refers to Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 systems. The term UNIX refers to Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX systems.

Note:

In TimesTen documentation, the terms "data store" and "database" are equivalent. Both terms refer to the TimesTen database unless otherwise noted.

This document uses the following text conventions:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
`monospace`	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.
`italic monospace`	Italic monospace type indicates a variable in a code example that you must replace. For example: `Driver=TimesTen_install_dir/lib/libtten.so` Replace `TimesTen_install_dir` with the path of your TimesTen installation directory.
[ ]	Square brackets indicate that an item in a command line is optional.
{ }	Curly braces indicate that you must choose one of the items separated by a vertical bar ( \| ) in a command line.
\|	A vertical bar separates alternative arguments.
. . .	An ellipsis (. . .) after an argument indicates that you may use more than one argument on a single command line.
%	The percent sign indicates the UNIX shell prompt.
#	The number (or pound) sign indicates the prompt for the UNIX root user.

TimesTen documentation uses these variables to identify path, file and user names:

Convention	Meaning
`TimesTen_install_dir`	The path that represents the directory where the current release of TimesTen is installed.
`TTinstance`	The instance name for your specific installation of TimesTen. Each installation of TimesTen must be identified at install time with a unique alphanumeric instance name. This name appears in the install path.
`bits` or `bb`	Two digits, 32 or 64, that represent either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the operating system.
`release` or `rr`	Digits that represent the TimesTen release number, with or without dots. For example, 1121 or 11.2.1 represents TimesTen Release 11.2.1.
`jdk_version`	One or two digits that represent the major version number of the Java Development Kit (JDK) release. For example, 5 represents JDK 5.
`DSN`	The data source name.

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Preface

Audience

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Conventions

Documentation Accessibility

Technical support