TimesTen is a powerful, easy to use and fast in-memory database.
Pros
- With basic database experience, TimesTen has a very short learning curve.
- The installation and setup is easy and straightforward. The command line instructions are easy to follow.
- The error logging mechanism is simple and efficient. The system log files are helpful in troubleshooting problems with using TimesTen.
- The maintenance tools are user friendly and effective. Upgrading is easy and quick. TimesTen is almost a self-administrating database.
Cons
- Provide better monitoring tools of TimesTen daemon, servers and connections.
- Improved support for APIs. The libraries lack the necessary code for applications to customize for applications using TimesTen.
Return on Investment
- TimesTen has had a positive impact from a developer's perspective because implementing TimesTen is quick and easy. The benefits of TimesTen can be seen almost instantly. For instance, the application start up time is faster, the data is easy to maintain and the performance is fast for TimesTen clients.
- TimesTen has had a positive impact for the business because it can be made accessible to users via a GUI. This gives users transparency to the data at any time.
- The negative impact is that once the TimesTen database has grown too large, the application should move to using Oracle database or else it suffers from performance degradation and stability issues.
Other Software Used
Splunk, MS SharePoint, CollabNet TeamForge
