Intersystems Caché

[MarillionFan]

One of the Legacy Primary Health Care systems is written in it. Cannot remember which one. EMIS for example is written in MUMPS but the MUMPS driver is really sh1t.

Have used an ODBC driver against it for extraction, but thats about it.

[_V_]

I wonder if Kenko or Nestle use Java?

[hyperD]

I love the irony of using a product called MUMPS in the Health Industry. Anyone used ASP in a reptile zoo? Or Perl in a marina?

[_V_]

I know a little bit about Intersystems Caché as I nearly did a contract using it.

It's not a relational database but a hierachical database technology (it is related to MUMPS, an obscure and rather strange technological "dead end").

There are SQL drivers to allow querying of the data but you are supposed to use Caché Basic (similar to VBScript) and Caché ObjectScript (which is compatible with MUMPS).

All rather odd and niche. Used a lot in the healthcare industry in the USA.

[HankWangford]

What did you want to know HW?

Well if a contract using this product is worth taking up or is it a pain to work with compared to sql server etc

[DimPrawn]

What did you want to know HW?

[HankWangford]

Nope...

HTH

ditto c unt

[Andyw]

Nope...

HTH

[HankWangford]

Yes, but not me.

HTH

Not a fat lot no

[DimPrawn]

Yes, but not me.

HTH

[HankWangford]

Anyone got any expereince with Intersystems Caché database??