InterSystems launches CACHE 5; Provides real-time analytics on Linux platform

InterSystems launches CACHE 5; Provides real-time analytics on Linux platform

InterSystems Launches CACHÉ 5

Post-Relational Database Wins Race to Deliver
Real-time Analytics for Transaction Processing

Runs 200 Times Faster than Oracle in Benchmark

Major New Release Also Delivers Fast Web Services, Enterprise Java
Support

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- September 23, 2002 -- InterSystems Corporation today
raised the database performance bar with the release of CACHÉ 5. The new
version of the companyž²s post-relational database enables real-time
analytics in transaction processing environments, a technology
breakthrough in an area where demand from application developers and IT
executives is building quickly.

ž³High performance analytics for data warehousing has been around for
years, but the poor update performance of the bit map indexes used in
warehousing applications has made them unusable in transaction
processing environments,ž´ says Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems vice
president of strategic planning. ž³Our new Transactional Bit Map Index
technology makes CACHÉ the first database to address this need.ž´

The worldž²s leading database provider in healthcare and recognized as a
database technology innovator in transaction processing, InterSystems
delivers high performance, highly scalable database products for Web and
client/server applications.

Benchmark Results Validate CACHÉ Speed

The new Transactional Bit Map Indexing available in CACHÉ 5 will be
especially useful for complex queries, according to Ken Billings, CIO at
Molecular Pathology Laboratory Network, a CACHÉ 5 beta user. Molecular
Pathology specializes in genomic laboratory medicine, including DNA
testing for infectious diseases, molecular oncology, mutational
analysis, and human identity testing. ž³We went live in August on the Web
with a CACHÉ-based lab system that we built in-house,ž´ Billings says.
ž³The ability to handle non-standard data types like graphics, images,
DNA sequences, microarrays, and time series data was critical. Wež²ve
converted a lot of our indexes to CACHÉ Transactional Bit Map Indexing,
and the search speed is simply incredible.ž´

CACHÉ 5 provides the query performance advantages of advanced indexing
technology with update performance equal to that of traditional indexes,
explains Grabscheid. Based on benchmarks run by InterSystems during
CACHÉ beta testing, the result is an extremely powerful combination.
ž³When benchmarking query and update performance of CACHÉ compared to
Oracle on a 10-million row table, CACHÉ ran more than 200 times faster,ž´
Grabscheid says.

>From its inception, CACHÉ was targeted to enable developers to rapidly
build and deploy high performance, highly scalable transaction
processing applications, according to Grabscheid. ž³Thatž²s been our niche
and the focus of our R&D efforts since the first CACHÉ product release
went to market. Legacy relational technologies have not traditionally
been optimized to deliver comparable functionality in the areas of
performance, scalability and rapid development, and the difference shows
clearly in performance benchmarks,ž´ he says.

Grabscheid cites a study published earlier this year by the KLAS
Enterprises research and consulting firm as another example of the
results of InterSystemsž² focus on transactional performance. The KLAS
study compared the performance of leading healthcare applications using
InterSystems or Oracle database systems. Based on a survey of 110
healthcare IT executives, InterSystemsž² software rated higher than
Oracle on every measure.

CACHÉ 5 Flexibility:  Fast Web Services, Fast Enterprise Java

CACHÉ 5 also includes high performance support for both Microsoft .Net
and Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE). ž³Most IT organizations, VARs, ISVs
and professional application developers are working with either
Microsoft .Net or Java Infrastructuresž·some with both,ž´ says Grabscheid.

ž³CACHÉ 5 provides the flexibility to enable organizations to make their
own framework choice and the speed to build high performance
applications quickly in either or both environments,ž´ Grabscheid says.
Key features include:

- CACHÉ Web Services?Built-in support for Web Services, without
requiring a separate application server or other complications. CACHÉ is
fully compatible with both .Net and Java frameworks for Web Services,
but is not dependent on either.  Any CACHÉ object method or stored
procedure can automatically be exposed as a Web Service, with full SOAP
and WSDL support. Existing CACHÉ applications can be Web Services
enabled without modification and new Web Services applications can be
built very rapidly. CACHÉ 5 features bi-directional XML and there is no
need for developer-defined mapping of XML to internal database
structures.

- CACHÉ Enterprise Java?In the past, J2EE developers had to choose
between Container Managed Persistence (CMP), which is easy to work with
but slow, or Bean Managed Persistence (BMP), which requires extensive
development work but can deliver fast performance. CACHÉ 5 automates
BMP, making it easier to work with than other vendorsž² CMP, while
enabling very high performance.

- CACHÉ Enterprise Cache Protocol (ECP)?The successor to InterSystemsž²
Distributed Cache Protocol, which was optimized for large-scale
client/server applications, ECP is architected for the extensive thin
client deployments typical of enterprise Web systems. Including a new
distributed concurrency engine and support for massive distributed cache
memory, ECP delivers top-tier performance and scalability for
multi-server configurations.

Available Now

Priced at US$200 in a single-user version and starting at US$1,000 for a
multi-user configuration, CACHÉ 5 is available immediately. Supported
platforms include Windows (Windows 95 upwards), Linux, HP Open VMS, and
Major UNIX platforms including IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, Tru64
UNIX and Sun Solaris.

About InterSystems

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., InterSystems Corporation
(www.InterSystems.com) is the leading provider of high performance
database systems for Web applications, with over four million users
worldwide. InterSystems' flagship product, CACHÉ, is a post-relational
database with a multidimensional data and application server offering
ultra-fast and massively scalable objects and SQL, real-time analytics
and outstanding transactional performance. CACHÉ features breakthrough
rapid development technology for building objects and object
applications.

Editorial Contacts
Jim Beasley
Shoor & Company
(803) 699-0710
jbeasley@shoorpr.com

Maureen Flaherty
InterSystems
(617) 621-0600
flaherty@intersystems.com

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