<s>
InterSystems	B-Language
Caché	I-Language
(	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
commercial	O
operational	O
database	B-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
from	O
InterSystems	B-Application
,	O
used	O
to	O
develop	O
software	O
applications	O
for	O
healthcare	O
management	O
,	O
banking	O
and	O
financial	O
services	O
,	O
government	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
sectors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Customer	O
software	O
can	O
use	O
the	O
database	O
with	O
object	O
and	O
SQL	B-Language
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Caché	B-Language
also	O
allows	O
developers	O
to	O
directly	O
manipulate	O
its	O
underlying	O
data	O
structures	O
:	O
hierarchical	O
arrays	O
known	O
as	O
M	B-Language
technology	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Internally	O
,	O
Caché	B-Language
stores	O
data	O
in	O
multidimensional	O
arrays	O
capable	O
of	O
carrying	O
hierarchically	B-General_Concept
structured	I-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
are	O
the	O
same	O
“	O
global	O
”	O
data	O
structures	O
used	O
by	O
the	O
MUMPS	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
,	O
which	O
influenced	O
the	O
design	O
of	O
Caché	B-Language
,	O
and	O
are	O
similar	O
to	O
those	O
used	O
by	O
MultiValue	B-Application
(	O
also	O
known	O
as	O
PICK	O
)	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
most	O
applications	O
,	O
however	O
,	O
object	O
and/or	O
SQL	B-Language
access	O
methods	O
are	O
used	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Caché	B-Language
ObjectScript	I-Language
,	O
Caché	B-Language
Basic	O
or	O
T-SQL	B-Language
can	O
be	O
used	O
to	O
develop	O
application	O
business	O
logic	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
External	O
interfaces	O
include	O
native	O
object	B-Application
binding	I-Application
for	O
C++	B-Language
,	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
EJB	B-Language
,	O
ActiveX	B-Application
,	O
and	O
.NET	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Caché	B-Language
supports	O
JDBC	B-Language
and	O
ODBC	B-Application
for	O
relational	O
access	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
XML	B-Protocol
and	O
web	O
services	O
are	O
also	O
supported	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Caché	B-Language
Server	O
Pages	O
(	O
CSP	O
)	O
technology	O
allows	O
tag-based	O
creation	O
of	O
web	B-Application
applications	I-Application
that	O
generate	O
dynamic	O
web	O
pages	O
,	O
typically	O
using	O
data	O
from	O
a	O
Caché	B-Language
database	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Caché	B-Language
also	O
includes	O
InterSystems	B-Application
Zen	O
,	O
an	O
implementation	O
of	O
AJAX	B-Device
that	O
enables	O
component-based	O
development	O
of	O
rich	B-Application
web	I-Application
applications	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
InterSystems	B-Application
was	O
founded	O
in	O
1979	O
to	O
commercialize	O
MUMPS	B-Language
hierarchical	B-General_Concept
databases	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
launched	O
Caché	B-Language
in	O
1997	O
as	O
its	O
flagship	O
product	O
and	O
at	O
that	O
time	O
ceased	O
further	O
development	O
of	O
its	O
original	O
MUMPS	B-Language
product	O
line	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
InterSystems	B-Application
claims	O
Caché	B-Language
is	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
fastest	O
object	B-Application
database	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
database	B-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
(	O
DBMS	O
)	O
is	O
used	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
hospital	O
patient	O
tracking	O
,	O
electronic	B-Application
medical	I-Application
record	I-Application
and	O
medicine	O
management	O
systems	O
,	O
in	O
products	O
developed	O
by	O
companies	O
such	O
as	O
Epic	O
Systems	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
the	O
VistA	O
system	O
used	O
by	O
the	O
U.S.	O
Department	O
of	O
Veteran	O
Affairs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sungard	O
includes	O
Caché	B-Language
in	O
the	O
AddVantage	O
asset	O
management	O
software	O
to	O
finance	O
industry	O
customers	O
such	O
as	O
banks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Telecommunications	O
vendors	O
BT	O
Group	O
and	O
Vodacom	O
also	O
use	O
Caché	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
DB-Engines	B-Application
website	O
has	O
ranked	O
Caché	B-Language
as	O
the	O
most	O
popular	O
object-oriented	B-Application
DBMS	I-Application
every	O
month	O
since	O
March	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Caché	B-Language
runs	O
on	O
Windows	B-Application
,	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
Solaris	B-Application
,	O
HP-UX	B-Application
,	O
AIX	B-Application
,	O
macOS	B-Application
and	O
OpenVMS	B-Operating_System
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
