In-Memory Data Management in the Application Tier The TimesTen Team   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Main Memory and Small Footprint Databases Abstract TimesTen Performance Software's Front-Tier product is an application-tier data cache. It enables data-intensive Internet computing systems to achieve breakthrough response times and throughput by: (1) Caching frequently used subsets of the corporate database in the application tier. This improves response time by reducing network overhead to the database server, and increases throughput by reducing contention on the database server. (2) Processing data management requests in the application tier in an in-memory relational database management system (RDBMS) that can deliver unprecedently low response times and high throughput rates. (3) Synchronizing updates to the cache with the corporate database to maintain data consistency. DiSC'01 Copyright ©2002 ACM Inc.