A couple of days ago I did some performance tests between Oracle 10g (Express) and Oracle TimesTen. As with any commercial products, there is some licensing and costs involved. Obviously, our idea was then to look for a more cost efficient solution in order to get the same results. We specifically looked at H2, a Java SQL Database. This DBMS can operate in several different modes such as embedded, server and in-memory and has compatibility modes for certain commcercial database products like DB2, MySql, MS SQL Server, Oracle and some others.