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Cache Is Great and InterSystems Wants You to Be Great Too
January 17, 2018

Cache Is Great and InterSystems Wants You to Be Great Too

David Crawford | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with InterSystems Caché

It is used as the premier database tool for handling the ETL of medical information and CSP interaction. Across the whole organization it is used, however the Integration team interacts with it directly. The business problem it addresses is the need to handle all of the specialized medical standards of data ETL in one ecosystem. The scalability needs of our growing services require the central technology to simply work with everything, and the Intersystems family of services, including Cache, provides this.
  • It's an object oriented database with relational access, making the vast volume of data ETL fast and as efficient as we are able to make it.
  • Easy to install and doesn't take a lot of time to get a test environment running.
  • CSP is a fascinating web development technology that easily connects a user application to the Cache handled data.
  • The great functionality hides behind an old UI that can be cumbersome to navigate, making Cache configurations take more time.
  • The easy installs of Cache need specific setups to work well, and if yours is unique or if your servers are highly specialized on a networking level in terms of ports, VMs, or otherwise, then there may be some difficulties getting things to work.
  • Because Cache offers so much, then the specialized development on our end is reduced dramatically. It can be the complete package for certain organizations, and in terms of ROI, Intersystems products have no equal.
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.
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.