Caché Backgrounder

About CACHÉ

InterSystems CACHÉ® is the high performance object database that runs SQL faster than relational databases. CACHÉ enables rapid Web application development, extraordinary transaction processing speed, massive scalability, and real-time queries against transactional data -- with minimal maintenance requirements. CACHÉ supports a wide range of development tools, programming languages, and hardware platforms.

Make Applications More Valuable

CACHÉ dramatically improves speed and scalability while decreasing hardware and  administration requirements. Extremely open and flexible, CACHÉ boosts developer productivity by making it easy to use a wide variety of technologies, including Java, .NET, EJB, XML and Web services. Increased productivity results in shorter development cycles, enabling enterprises to bring products to market more quickly.

  • CACHÉ features InterSystems Zen™, an extensible, high-level framework for rapid Rich Internet Application development. With an extensive library of pre-built components, including grids, tables, selection trees, and much more, Zen allows developers to easily create Web applications with the same highly responsive and rich user interfaces as sophisticated desktop solutions.
  • InterSystems Jalapeño™ technology derives CACHÉ classes from plain old Java object (POJO) definitions, and automatically handles persistence methods at run time. Java developers can utilize POJOs without even thinking about how data is stored. By eliminating the need for object-relational mapping, Jalapeño technology can reduce Java development time by as much as 40 percent.
  • CACHÉ’s Unified Data Architecture eliminates the impedance mismatch between object and relational views of data. CACHÉ classes can be queried using SQL without the tedious and time-consuming chore of mapping between objects and tables.
  • Rapid development is enabled by CACHÉ’s fully realized object model, which supports such time-saving concepts as multiple inheritance and polymorphism.
  • Developers work best when they use familiar technologies. CACHÉ classes can easily be projected as Java, .NET, C++, XML, SOAP, and EJB.
  • The CACHÉ Web service wizard can expose any CACHÉ class as a Web service with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Applications based on CACHÉ run faster than those based on relational database technology. And, CACHÉ maintains its lightning-fast speed even as applications scale up to serve many thousands of concurrent users. That translates into a competitive advantage for every enterprise that uses CACHÉ.

  • CACHÉ’s efficient multidimensional data engine delivers SQL response times that are typically up to five times faster than relational database technology.
  • CACHÉ is the only major database capable of supporting real-time data analytics through its Transactional Bit-map Indexing.
  • CACHÉ Enterprise Cache Protocol dramatically increases the scalability of Web and other thin-client distributed applications, without sacrificing performance.
  • CACHÉ eliminates the need for object-relational mapping, which spares Java, .NET, and C++ programmers tedious, time-consuming work.