What's New in the Latest TimesTen Release?

August 20, 2020

Announcing TimesTen 18.1.4 Release Availability

Effective on August 20,2020, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 18.1.4 is generally available. The TimesTen 18.1.4 release is available for download here.

What's New in the TimesTen 18.1.4 Patchset

As well as bug fixes and general improvements, this patch set updates platform support and contains several new features including:

• -- Kubernetes Operator for TimesTen Classic

• -- Support for TLS encryption of client-server and replication traffic

• -- New SQL functions

• -- A new mode for automatic client failover

• -- Enhancements to TimesTen Cache functionality

• -- A new backup type for TimesTen Scaleout to optimize backups to a remote location over a WAN

Refer to the TimesTen 18.1 Release Notes for more details or full detail presentation of the new features in TimesTen 18.1.4 is available here.

Changes to TimesTen Licensing

We have made some small changes to the way in which TimesTen is licensed to make it more flexible and better suited to our customers' needs. For details on the new licensing see the TimesTen Licensing Guide.

All new VirtualBox VM for TimesTen

A completely new VirtualBox VM featuring TimesTen 18.1 and Oracle Database 18c. This VM makes it easy to experiment with and learn about TimesTen - Classic, Cache and Scaleout - in realistic 'multi host' configurations all within a single VM. The VM includes pre-defined and scripted scenarios plus Hands-on-Labs covering all three deployment modes. The TimesTen Demo VM can be downloaded from here.

Support for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory in 'memory mode'

We've tested TimesTen with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory configured in 'memory mode' and as expected it works just fine. Customers can use systems with this type of memory to support much larger in-memory databases than is typically possible using regular DRAM.

GoldenGate Certification

TimesTen 18.1 is certified as a supported delivery target for Oracle GoldenGate 19.1. All TimesTen deployment modes are supported. GoldenGate provides an alternative mechanism for using TimesTen as a read-only in-memory cache, including for source databases other than Oracle Database.