IBM IMS vs. InterSystems Caché (legacy product)

We have built a database of a network of bank branches with all the needs of security and recovery/restart. It requires knowledge of obsolete maintenance languages and perhaps it is too rigid in the schemes.

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It's definitely great for medical industries that need the vast amounts of features/security/performance, however if you need something simple then this would be too much. There is a learning curve, and if you come from more common database technologies, then there will be a lot of differences to handle. Simple database needs would be better fulfilled elsewhere, but Cache is for when you need to take the next step, whether that be in the volume, complexity, or security of ETL.

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• Security
• Reliability
• Big volume of data and good performance

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• Performance
• Robustness
• Reliable

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• Certainly, not being a DB relational penalizes its use
• It should be more flexible
• Open up to more recent languages

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• The IDE IntelliSense needs to be improved.

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Essentially, for a question of reliability and scalability, the performance has always been of an enterprise level. The utilities are efficient and effective.

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I've only worked with products that do one thing before, but there's so much that Cache offers versus piecing different services together manually. Not only does the product offer a more robust tool-set, but the support is wonderful and I've never encountered a better vendor in any industry in terms of how well they interact with their customers and care about helping you solve your problems. They want you to grow and to get better.

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• The investment made about 20 years ago that has been fully repaid
• Reliability and security of investments
• Unfortunately, it is quite outdated and therefore maintenance costs are higher because the skills are not always available.

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• Implementation time could be speeded up
• It is very flexible and attractive

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