InterSystems Caché (legacy product) Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 10 out of 10

Score

10 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for InterSystems Caché are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Database Creation: Users appreciate the ease of creating databases and find it to be one of the standout features of Caché. They have stated that it is simple and straightforward to create databases, allowing them to quickly set up their data storage systems without any hassle.

Integration Engine Effectiveness: Reviewers have praised the integration engine in Caché for its effectiveness and ease of use. They have found the adapters and components provided by the engine to be highly valuable, enabling seamless integration with other systems or applications.

Built-in Natural Language Processing Abilities: The built-in natural language processing abilities in Caché have garnered positive feedback from users. They recognize this feature as a significant advantage, as it allows them to develop ground-breaking applications that can process and understand human language more efficiently.

Reviews

4 Reviews

Not for all but good for some

Rating: 4 out of 10

Incentivized

July 6, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Platform for a clinical laboratory middleware software. Using InterSystems solutions for frontend (ZEN), backed (COS) and storage (Caché DB). Communication interfaces to other hosts/instruments not using embedded communication solutions. Installed on-premise to manage communication and transformations between instruments and multiple hosts, with the possibility of doing limited LIS functions.

Pros

Performance
Robustness
Reliable

Cons

Resource intensive
Deployment
Complexity

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for a one for all, heavy bundled, and licensed solution. When trying to evolve and scale, it can be very limiting. Think future proof as something that fits now could be hard to change later and work around.

Mathew Lambert

Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Roche Diagnostics (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Non relational DB - yes you can!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 19, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At our company, we developed an ERP system that is using the InterSystems Cache DB. Our ERP system is used by many clients and allow the clients to handle all the different business processes that he or she need. It enables the customer to integrate his or her different processes from their other systems to and from our system.

Pros

Rapid development
Integration with other systems using SQL, WS, FTP, eMail, etc.
A complete solution that includes not only the DB itself but also all the other management tools, development tools, IDE, source control etc.

Cons

The IDE IntelliSense needs to be improved.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need to use a DB that will run on several OS, if you're looking for a DB that enables you a rapid development, if you're looking for a non relational DB, if you're looking for a DB that can easily communicate with other systems (intranet or internet), if you're looking for a DB that supply you all the tools you need to start coding and admin it, if you're looking for a fast DB, and for many other reasons - InterSystems Cache is your DB.

Yuval Golan

Software development manager in Research & Development at Matrix (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

17 years of experience

View profile

Simple review about InterSystems Cache

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 17, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

If you like to have more control over your data, you can use InterSystems Caché. With this database, you will have SQL, Objects and direct access to the data at the same time, and you can choose the way which you need. And you can use internal language (CacheObjectScript) to access this external data or any kind of supported external languages.

Pros

Fast development
the language light to learn.
Different ways to access data
Good internal documentation, which is also available online.

Cons

Popularity should be better, after so many years.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is suited for any kind of project, from medical systems to the fastest storage for saving information about space around us.

Dmitry Maslennikov

Lead Developer in Research & Development at Insight Informatics Pty Ltd (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

View profile

Cache Is Great and InterSystems Wants You to Be Great Too

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 17, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

David Crawford

Integration Developer in Information Technology at Great Lakes Health Connect (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

View profile

Loading Reviews List....

Cache Is Great and InterSystems Wants You to Be Great Too

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 17, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

David Crawford

Integration Developer in Information Technology at Great Lakes Health Connect (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

View profile