TimesTen job post





Position: Member of Technical Staff
Group: Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database
Division: Server Technologies
Contact: Tirthankar Lahiri (Director of TimesTen Development)
(tirthankar.lahiri@xxxxxxxxxx, (650)506-6279)

Oracle TimesTen is the industry-leading in-memory database management system. It is intended for applications that must be instantly responsive, highly scalable, and highly available.

The Oracle TimesTen in-memory database supports all the basic functionality of a traditional database. However, TimesTen shakes all the assumptions of traditional disk-based databases by taking for granted the fact that memory is inexpensive and plentiful and thus relies on having all data in main memory. This assumption results in simplified design, which in turn results in much higher performance than is possible for a traditional database system.

The Oracle TimesTen database can be used in standalone mode where it is the only database for the application. The database code can also be directly linked in to the application for far greater performance than a traditional client-server configuration since network round-trips are eliminated. Such configurations are ideal for embedded database applications and for achieving real-time performance capabilities. This market segment is growing rapidly and there are exciting challenges in achieving the scalability, throughput, and fault-tolerance requirements for these customers.



Oracle TimesTen can also be used in cache mode with the Oracle database server 10g where it plays the role of a front-end cache to the Oracle database. This combination is also very exciting from a strategic perspective since it provides a unique synergy of capabilities: fast in-memory access and real-time capabilities of Oracle TimesTen combined with the vast arena of advanced functionalities supported by the Oracle Database 10g. You can think of Oracle TimesTen as being a high-performance turbocharger on top of the sophisticated Oracle database engine, to greatly accelerate the end-user performance experience of an Oracle database application.

The TimesTen team is a small and talented team. We are looking for creative engineers who would like a challenging environment, in which individuals can play leading roles in developing and defining technologies for any aspect of in-memory data management including query processing, storage management, indexing, logging, recovery, replication, high-availability, caching data, user interfaces, performance evaluation, etc. This is an opportunity to be a significant part of emerging technological trends and to help to define the vision for future database technologies.

For more information on Oracle TimesTen, please visit http://www.oracle.com/timesten/index.html.



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