What is CACHÉ ?

Having acquired several versions of the M Technology implementations, InterSystems (www.InterSystems.com) decided to add M Technology language compatibility to their next generation product that they released in 1997. This next generation product was Caché - the post-relational database for e-applications, that is optimized for the tougher demands of Web applications. It delivers breakthrough performance for massively scalable Web applications. Its rapid application development environment with advanced object technology lets you operate at Internet speed. Caché's ultra-fast SQL outperforms relational systems 20X. And its multidimensional application and data server delivers lightning-fast performance.

Caché incorporates much of the values of M Technology implementations, whilst being a completely new product that combines a robust object database, high performance SQL and multi-dimensional access. Two key aspects to these values are performance and rapid application development. Its performance benefits exploit a small hardware foot print and low maintenance overheads providing a low total cost of ownership. The rapid application benefits unify relational and object software development across a wide range of hardware and operating system platforms. It also encompasses an object based dynamic web page generation technology called Caché Server Pages (CSP) that makes complex transactional web application simple and fast to develop and maintain.

Most M Technology implementations are largely supporting legacy applications, - in contrast Caché pushes the boundaries of modern software development capability with support for XML, SOAP, Web Services, C++, Visual Basic, .Net, Delphi, Caché Object Script, Caché Basic, Java via JDBC and with Container Managed Persistence (CMP) and Bean Managed Persistence (BMP), BEA WebLogic, SQL with bi-directional ODBC and iODBC support, IBM Websphere MSQI and much more.