TimesTen

TimesTen is an in-memory relational database company that spun out of Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto in 1996 as TimesTen Performance Software, taking venture backing that included Lightspeed Venture Partners, and was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2005. The product lives on as Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, a persistent, ACID-compliant OLTP database with SQL support, replication, JSON support, and a Kubernetes operator, documented today under Oracle Help Center with releases 11.2.2, 18.1, 22.1, and 26.1. The company no longer operates independently and publishes no standalone web API; timesten.com redirects into oracle.com.

TimesTen is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Databases, In-Memory Database, Relational Databases, and Caching.

TimesTen’s developer surface includes documentation, changelog, GitHub presence, and 3 more developer resources.

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11.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-23 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyDatabasesIn-Memory DatabaseRelational DatabasesCachingOracleAcquired

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Composite quality — 11.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

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description: TimesTen is an in-memory relational database company that spun out of Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto in 1996
  as TimesTen Performance Software, taking venture backing that included Lightspeed Venture Partners, and was acquired by
  Oracle Corporation in 2005. The product lives on as Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, a persistent, ACID-compliant OLTP
  database with SQL support, replication, JSON support, and a Kubernetes operator, documented today under Oracle Help Center
  with releases 11.2.2, 18.1, 22.1, and 26.1. The company no longer operates independently and publishes no standalone web
  API; timesten.com redirects into oracle.com.
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