- Caché (software)
Infobox Software
name = Caché
developer = InterSystems Corporation
latest_release_version = 2008.2 RC (build 506)
latest_release_date =
operating_system = multiple
genre = database management and application development
website = [http://www.InterSystems.com/Cache/ InterSystems.com/Cache]InterSystems Caché is an object
database management system from InterSystems Corporation. It provides object andSQL access to the database, as well as allowing direct manipulation of Caché’s underlying data structures. The company claims Caché is the world’s fastest database [http://www.intersystems.com/cache/index.html] . Caché runs on Windows,Linux , Sun Solaris,HP-UX , Tru64 UNIX,AIX ,Mac OS X andOpenVMS platforms (old, still supported versions of Caché, also run on Data General Aviion and SCO UnixWare).Notable customers of this DBMS are many US hospitals, who run their
Electronic Medical Record systems using Caché, financial institutions likeAmeritrade and Sungard, and others includingEpic Systems ,IBM , BT, andVodacom .Architecture
Internally, Caché stores data in multidimensional arrays capable of carrying hierarchically structured data. These are the same “global” data structures used by the
MUMPS database language, and are similar to those used byMultiValue (aka PICK) systems. In most applications, however, object and/orSQL access methods are used.Caché ObjectScript ,Caché Basic orT-SQL can be used to develop application business logic. External interfaces include native object binding forC++ , Java,EJB ,ActiveX , and .NET. Caché supportsJDBC andODBC for relational access.XML andWeb Services are also supported.Caché Server Pages technology allows tag-based creation of Web applications that dynamically generate Web pages, typically using data from a Caché database. Caché also includesInterSystems Zen , an implementation ofAJAX that enables component-based development of Rich Internet Applications.Competitors
The main competitors are vendors of relational databases such as DB2 from
IBM ,MS-SQL fromMicrosoft ,MySQL , Oracle and oracle'sHyperion Essbase .External links
* [http://www.intersystems.com/ InterSystems]
* [ftp://ftp.intersystems.com/ InterSystems FTP site]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/intersystems-public-cache/topics/ Caché Newsgroup] (via Google Groups)
* [http://download.intersystems.com/download InterSystems Caché download] Free, non-expiring, fully-functional evaluation version of Caché
* [http://docs.intersystems.com/ InterSystems' Caché documentation site] HTML and .pdf docs for Caché v4.1 -> current release
* [http://www.nlm.cz/search Searchable Caché documentation]
* [http://www.cachemonitor.de cachemonitor.de] - free SQL Query and Admin Tool for Caché
* [http://www.cachewiki.org/index.php/Cach%C3%A9_Wiki Caché Wiki]
* [http://www.cache-hosting.com/ Caché Hosting] - Mutual web hosting solutions for Caché Web Applications
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