History

TimesTen was originally the SmallBase project out of HP Labs. It was then spun off as a separate start-up.

Checkpoints

Compression

Concurrency Control

Data Model

Indexes

By default TimesTen uses B+Tree. The original version (SmallBase) from the 1990s supported T-Trees. TimesTen still supports T-Tree indexes but the administrator has to request for the DBMS to use them.

Isolation Levels

Query Interface

Storage Architecture