--- title: Oracle TimesTen Reviews meta_title: 'Oracle TimesTen Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 22 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Oracle TimesTen works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.8 review_count: 22 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-21' parent_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # Oracle TimesTen Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [Relational Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/relational-databases) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About Oracle TimesTen Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is a full-featured relational database thats designed to run in the application tier and store all data in main memory. This makes the reading or writing of data as simple and fast as accessing RAM. ## Oracle TimesTen Reviews ### 1. Analyst **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carol P. | QA Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** Tt is simple and easy to use. It is user friendly and easy going. A platform that is well known and built for usage **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** I could not find anything i dislike about it. It has all the right elements. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle TimesTen:** none **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** It aids in facilitating and optimizing the memory database for your work space with all the right information needed and required ### 2. It gets the job done. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mairead H. | C, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** It provides a one-stop shop for online systems management. **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** I dislike the interface as it can be confusing to navigate at times. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the problem of having to use multiple different platforms to achieve a sequence of tasks. ### 3. the most light weight and blazing fast RDMS your money can buy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ippei S. | Japan Country Manager | Head of Client Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** the core value of TimesTen is its embed-ability i.e. it can even run inside of telecom call control switch or session controller. it requires minimum resources from operation system. requires almost zero CPU power when running simple primary key search. this lightweight aspect is the strongest advantage of TimesTen even more than "all sit on memory" which is also great. **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** not a dislike but TT should be placed at right usage. for general purpose database where a lot of different types of queries are requested, especially analytics type of usage, you should go with regular Oracle DB or Data Warehouse products. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle TimesTen:** Access your use case, validate execution ability ie right technical resources to correctly implement TT and good support from the vendor, then you're all set to go, you'll be pleased by the great outcome **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Single row marching - session control, managing login / logout, massive survey, financial services trading, in memory replication for high availability, and many more. ### 4. Timesten - Easy to setup and use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sameer J. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** Its same as Oracle so easy to migrate. Good Support from oracle team. Also i like the speed it improves the speed by 10x. You will need minimal code change to switch to Timesten. **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** Few things did not work so i wish it supports native oracle queries. Also we need easy driver for JDBC connectivity we need to add special jar to make it work. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle TimesTen:** Try this good caching framework and very easy to setup. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to implement caching so reduce the SLA for response. Also it allows us to use the Caching strategy to reduce the overall response time. ### 5. TimesTen+OrcaleDB **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** In-memory DB which synchronizes data with OracleDB and doing it really fast. It is very convenient if you need a fast in-memory relational database but at the same time need to flush data to OracleDB in near real-time **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** It has some limitations after all it is an in-memory storage. If we talk about Java driver it is not like with other relational databases jdbc drivers. In order to connect to TimesTen using its jdbc driver you should add TimesTen native libraries to the classpath. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** High level of writes/update operations. OrcalceDB (even in a small cluster) was not able to manage this amount of load. We had pull necessary data for the application from OracleDB to TimesTen and used it as live in-memory cache which was synced with original data in OracleDB in near real-time. The application generated a lot of inserts/updates operations. TimesTen flushed these records to OracleDB. Initially application worked with OracleDB directly. It took us only a couple of days to switch application to TimesTen as SQL syntax is almost identical in OracleDB and TimesTen. As a result, application got X times faster and we get ability to scale it horizontally. ### 6. Times Ten In-Memory Database is todays best solution for making main tables available at all sites **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hassan M. | System Support Manager, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** Times Ten In-Memory Database is todays best solution for making main tables available at all sites **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** Credential Manager configuration should be more easy, Its very difficult for new implementer **Recommendations to others considering Oracle TimesTen:** all users should list the required tables to setup in times ten to save query execution time. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Because of availablity of offline tables at times ten it is easy to resolve queries using the available tables. ### 7. We had a visible improvement of speed in our flows after adding timesten on top of oracle db. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** The speed of execution in an environment where you need to deliver an answer almost real time. **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** The fact that you need to be very carefull when decide what to keep in timesten and what not and also aging mechanism. It takes a while untill a balance is achieved, but I guess it is all up to the skills of the person that does the setup. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle TimesTen:** If you are looking for speed improvements in you flows this is one of the aspects to be taken into consideration: Timesten on top of your database. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Almost real time access to identification information on very large data sets. The benefit is that it delivers very fast the requested answer and with proper setup is very stable. ### 8. Felipe - TT Review Jan2021 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Felipe B. | Senior Data Security Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** The performance since it runs in the memory **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** Not to friendly to work with... better interface **Recommendations to others considering Oracle TimesTen:** Not much at the moment **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** The rating module of our billing system runs on it and it's pretty fast ### 9. Extremely Fast processing by TT **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** Its very fast in processing of real time transactions/ updation. We have been using it in Mobile Exchange for VLR processing .Extremely easy to manually query the DB through SQLcomands **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** Only the thing that if some corruption happens in DB due to some mistake, its difficult to rectify without back up. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been using it in Mobile Exchange for VLR database . We are also including it for Mobility Management DB and Exchange DATA and SIgnalling DATA. Extremely easy to manually query the DB through SQLcomands ### 10. Perfect startup ideas **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** Rules based in memory techniques and tuning before moving data to in memory **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** Queries sent to TIMESTEN can be optimized **Recommendations to others considering Oracle TimesTen:** Go for it to venture into RAMDB's **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pre cloud routing efficient architecture ### 11. solution architect **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** GUAN S. | Solutions Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** data protection even memory is exhausted or used up **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** sometimes the error messages can be ambiguous **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** temporary and secure data caching ### 12. Best for caching based solution for effective request response. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** Faster throughput with efficient storage **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** Improved support for APIs. The libraries lack the necessary code for applications to customize for applications using TimesTen. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle TimesTen:** Good for cache based real time solutions. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster data fetching for real time solutions. ### 13. TimesTen database in Mobile Broadband IN networks supports real-time in-memory transactions. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** Efficient database as compared to the other conventional db. **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** Monitoring tools and Geo redundancy implementation in TimesTen could be improved. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle TimesTen:** Good database for realtime transactions, go for it if you need faster in-memory transactions evaluations. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** All the realtime transactions like the Prepaid mobile session quota allocation can be achieved efficiently. ### 14. Great product... **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** The fact that it is in memory makes it a great DB **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** Better UI must be provided with such products **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** A really fast response DB ### 15. Very good in memory database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Toghrul A. | Product & Service Operations Unit Head, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** The best advantage of Timesten is, it has aging functionality - which immediately move to data to Oracle database. It is really very fast. Erlang - it is very good language which Timesten built **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** The main disadvantage is, Oracle has not enough good support. We has premium support, but actually we never get support from Oracle for Timesten problems. We always receive the same answer to our questions: "It is application problem, not database" . **Recommendations to others considering Oracle TimesTen:** If you search very fast database which can be integrated with Oracle RDBMS type database, Timesten is number one **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** As it is in memory database, we win in speed of data. We have huge transaction in per seconds, approximately 10000 transactions. Timesten solves this problem. ### 16. User friendly **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** The usability of this is really good! Easy to learn. **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** I don’t like that it takes a round about way to get what you need. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to keep track of our leave balances and requests. ### 17. Outdated time and attendance system **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** Sends you reminders to approve or submit time. When you enter time start and end in to the system it automatically calculates and show the amount of time worked. This saves a lot of painful algebra. **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** This system is heavily outdated. The platform looks old and gray. Just for me to approve someone’s time on this system takes at minimum 5 clicks. This is even the case when I am clinking on the direct link provided in the reminder emails. I don’t understand why there are so many layers to get to the page I need. These layers are even a security measure. It’s just a horrible platform design. and forget adjusting time that was entered wrong and has passed the payroll deadline. I have to be on the phone with someone on HR just to figure out how to figure that out. Wish this system was more intuitive for something that could be so simple. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** This allows the non full time or permanent employees track their hours worked. Since typical full time employees do not need to track the hours worked we the normal for wide system won’t support the folks getting hourly wage. ### 18. oracle times ten review for database caching **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sandeep n. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** This provides robust caching solution on top of rdbms **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** this has many bugs and very hard to setup and has less support **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are trying to have caching solution on top of RDBMS ### 19. Oracle TimesTen **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** Pretty Fast. Light weight. Works well with OBIEE. Good for Aggregates **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** Need to get the box from Oracle. Cant be stand alone. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed. Reports are very fast. Gets result in a sec as the data is in memory. ### 20. well done presentation **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** OLTP performance metrix and architecture **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** not sure yet and still figuring out the product features **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance for OLTP ### 21. Database partner **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sofiene M. | Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** What I really like With oracle Times Ten is performance wich is the most important thing for a database and how it generates queries that minimize time of execution **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** what I dislike is connection phase it bugs sometimes **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** faciliate work for consultant and make project progression more fast ### 22. Needs a UI update **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle TimesTen?** It's nice that we're able to go into the system and make edits ourselves, even without having to be at the location using the program **What do you dislike about Oracle TimesTen?** Doesn't always process our updates and edits. We have to do the same edit multiple times - and even call support sometimes - just to get the edit/update saved. **What problems is Oracle TimesTen solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to make corrections to the program without actually having to be on site ## Oracle TimesTen Discussions - [What is Oracle TimesTen used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-oracle-timesten-used-for) - [Why not propel it to the Data Virtualization - Virtualisation frameworks?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/32753-why-not-propel-it-to-the-data-virtualization-virtualisation-frameworks) - 1 upvote - [We aleady ask many question to Oracle support.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/we-aleady-ask-many-question-to-oracle-support) - 1 upvote - [View Oracle TimesTen pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-timesten/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-30+18%3A03%3A10+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ba60771f-cf5b-4be0-bb48-254eee8f7761&secure%5Btoken%5D=02a36775d27066adb74323872e841cc4a9f0ebe8ce150dbae2a7c6a2544acf41&format=llm_user) ## Oracle TimesTen Features **Management ** - Data Schema - Query Language - ACID - Complaint - Data Replication **Support ** - Text Search - Data Types - Languages - Operating Systems **Security** - Database Locking - Access Control - Encryption - Authentication **Performance ** - Disaster Recovery - Data Concurrency - Workload Management - Advanced Indexing - Query Optimizer **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Oracle TimesTen Alternatives - [Microsoft SQL Server](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (2,127 reviews) - [SQLite](https://www.g2.com/products/sqlite/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (252 reviews) - [PostgreSQL](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (649 reviews)