Caché is a truly amazing tool; it

• is a multidimensional database that uniquely combines robust objects and robust SQL, thus eliminating object-relational mapping. Caché enables
• rapid Web application development,
  
• extraordinary transaction processing speed,
  
• massive scalability, and
  
• real-time queries against transactional data, 

        all with minimal maintenance requirements;

• blends the best features of healthcare industry standards from the 60s-era MUMPS with native objects and SQL allowing MUMPS applications to be hosted on Caché and upgraded to web applications, such as integrated Visual Basic, Java, .NET, and web-services based applications;

• stores data using an extremely efficient multidimensional format that ensures lightning-fast performance even under heavy loads and requires significantly less hardware than many other database systems;

• makes its data accessible through a wide variety of technologies, thus promoting both openness and rapid application development using familiar, readily-available tools;

• has the freedom to model data in any manner chosen: as objects, tables, or multidimensional arrays;

• comes with an easy-to-use graphic interface for creating Caché Objects. It supports a full range of object modeling techniques, including multiple inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, references, collections, relationships, and BLOBs.