Oracle timesten 11g new feature
Timesten 11g , a version that has too much expectation has been released.
Timesten is fast and good , even much faster than the Oracle database. But the fact that previous edition of timesten 's api is different from Oracle database has prevented some customer from choosing this great product. Why? Of course we don't want to re-write our applications all over again in order to connect to timesten.
The most compelling new feature
Now comes the timesten 11g, a version that 's supposed to have compatible programming interface with Oracle database, which means that It has OCI/PROC api and has the ability to execute Oracle PLSQL. Now we could dream on that by just placing a timesten in front of our Oracle database , our system will run much faster without having to modify the application coding.
The secondary compelling new feature
What I 'm not satisfied with the previous edition of timesten is the cluster capability.
When we use multi node of timestne, each node is unaware of the other nodes, we have to partition the data and distribute the data into different node of timesten mannully, each node is just running without knowledge of other nodes!
It is agonizing that we have to configure the application to connect to different node of timesten in order to access different data.
And this question is now been answered by the timesten 11g release!
Oracle seems to move some feature of RAC into timesten now. According to the released presentation, timesten node could transfer cache from one node to another. which is really similiar with RAC 's cache fusion machenism. It seems that in the near future, more RAC feature might be moved to timesten to make an edition of 'timesten RAC' :) .
It is also happy to know that SQL Developer , a very good graphic free tools , is planned to have the ability to connect to timesten! Finally timesten has some decent client graphic tools!