What's New

This section summarizes the new features of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database release 11.2.1 that are documented in this guide and provides links to more information.

Installation user

In this release, TimesTen recommends that the instance not be installed by user root. The user installing TimesTen must be a member of the TimesTen administrators group and is referred to as the TimesTen instance administrator.

Access Control

TimesTen is now installed with Access Control enabled. It cannot be disabled. All users must be created within TimesTen and granted the appropriate privileges. For information on types of users, how to create users and how to grant the appropriate privileges, see the "Managing Access Control" chapter in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Operations Guide.

Platform support

Platform support has changed in this release. For a list of platforms on which TimesTen is supported in 11.2.1, see Platform support in Chapter 1, "TimesTen Installation."