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Oracle® TimesTen In-Memory Database Java Developer's Guide
11g Release 2 (11.2.2)

Part Number E21638-04
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Preface

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is a memory-optimized relational database. Deployed in the application tier, TimesTen operates on databases that fit entirely in physical memory using standard SQL interfaces. High availability for the in-memory database is provided through real-time transactional replication.

TimesTen supports a variety of programming interfaces, including PL/SQL (Oracle procedural language extension for SQL), ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), OCI (Oracle Call Interface), Pro*C/C++ (Oracle precompiler for embedded SQL and PL/SQL instructions in C or C++ code), TTClasses (TimesTen C++ Interface Classes), and ODP.NET (Oracle Data Provider for .NET).

This document covers TimesTen support for JDBC.

The following topics are discussed in the preface:

Audience

This guide is for anyone developing or supporting applications that use TimesTen through JDBC.

In addition to familiarity with JDBC, you should be familiar with TimesTen, SQL (Structured Query Language), and database operations.

Related documents

TimesTen documentation is available on the product distribution media and on the Oracle Technology Network:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/timesten/documentation/

Javadoc for standard JDBC (Java SE) classes and interfaces is available at the following locations (the first for Java 6, the second for Java 5):

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/

Javadoc for standard Java EE classes and interfaces is available at the following locations (the first for Java 6, the second for Java 5):

http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/
http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/api/

Oracle documentation is also available on the Oracle Technology network. This may be especially useful for Oracle features that TimesTen supports but does not attempt to fully document:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/documentation/

In particular, the following Oracle documents may be of interest.

Conventions

TimesTen supports multiple platforms. Unless otherwise indicated, the information in this guide applies to all supported platforms. The term Windows applies to all supported Windows platforms. The term UNIX applies to all supported UNIX and Linux platforms. Refer to the "Platforms" section in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release Notes for specific platform versions supported by TimesTen.

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
italic Italic type indicates terms defined in text, book titles, or emphasis.
monospace Monospace type indicates code, commands, URLs, class names, interface names, method names, function names, attribute names, directory names, file names, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.
italic monospace Italic monospace type indicates a placeholder or a variable in a code example for which you specify or use a particular value. For example:

Driver=install_dir/lib/libtten.sl

Replace install_dir with the path of your TimesTen installation directory.

[ ] Square brackets indicate that an item in a command line is optional.
{ } Curly braces indicated that you must choose one of the items separated by a vertical bar ( | ) in a command line.
| A vertical bar (or pipe) separates alternative arguments.
. . . An ellipsis (. . .) after an argument indicates that you may use more than one argument on a single command line. An ellipsis in a code example indicates that what is shown is only a partial example.
% The percent sign indicates the UNIX shell prompt.

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

Convention Meaning
install_dir The path that represents the directory where 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 instance name. This name appears in the install path.
bits or bb Two digits, either 32 or 64, that represent either the 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.
release or rr The first three parts in a release number, with or without dots. The first three parts of a release number represent a major TimesTen release. For example, 1122 or 11.2.2 represents TimesTen 11g Release 2 (11.2.2).
jdk_version One or two digits that represent the version number of a major JDK release. For example, 14 is for JDK 1.4 and 5 is for JDK 5.
DSN TimesTen data source name (for the TimesTen database).

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