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This white paper provides a solution overview and focuses on running TimesTen in Classic mode on Dell S5000 Series servers.
Oracle TimesTen Classic is a powerful memory-optimized relational database that provides applications with a fast response time and high throughput, as required by many applications in a wide range of industries.
TimesTen Classic delivers real-time performance for OLTP or OLAP workloads by changing where the data resides at runtime. By managing data in memory and optimizing data structures and algorithms accordingly, database operations run with maximum efficiency and requires less processing power. This leads to achieving dramatic gains in overall response times and throughput when compared to a fully cached disk-based database.
Like conventional disk-based databases, TimesTen Classic database is persistent and recoverable. The durability of TimesTen is achieved through a combination of transaction logging and database checkpointing to disk. With the in-memory database technology, the disks are only used for persistence and recovery rather than as the primary database storage location. TimesTen also provides high availability by replicating transactions between TimesTen databases asynchronously or synchronously.
Dell S5000 Series servers, powered by Intel Cascade Lake processors, deliver modern performance and security that seamlessly scale up with your changing business needs. The six-socket to eight-socket S5408 8U rack server supports a maximum of 224 cores and 12TB of memory, while the S5416 21U rack server supports up to 16 sockets and a maximum of 448 cores and 24TB of memory.
Model | Sockets | Number of Cores | Memory Size |
S5408 8U rack server | 6-8 | 224 maximum | 12TB |
S6416 21U rack server | Up to 16 | 448 maximum | 24TB |
Because Oracle TimesTen Classic database size is limited by the amount of physical memory in the server, the server hardware needs to have a large enough memory footprint to store the whole database in RAM. The Dell S5000 Series servers provide that capability.