The development of Caché began in 1995 as successor product to InterSystems' family of ANSI-Standard M-based database products. The goal was, and remains, to create the world's highest performance database product coupled with rapid application development capabilities.
The brief history of major Caché releases is outlined below:
Caché 2.0
Released in early 1997. This was the first public release of the Caché Data Engine. Highlights include:
Caché 2.1
Released in September 1997. The first release to be called “Caché”. Highlights include:
Caché 3.0
Released in January 1998. This release focused on Unicode and lnternationalization and was released primarily within Asian markets. Highlights include:
Caché 3.1
Released in January 1999. This was a significant release with major revisions to every area of the product. Highlights include:
Caché 3.2
Released in January 2000. The follow-up to the very successful v3.1 release included many improvements in all areas. Highlights include:
Caché 4.0
Released in December 2000. A major breakthrough for developing web-based database applications. Highlights include:
Caché 4.1
Released in September 2001. This release was focused on radically improving the underlying scaling, performance, and capacity of Caché. Highlights include:
Caché 5.0
This release, released in December 2002.
This release focuses on boosting developer productivity with Caché. It also offers greater scalability via ECP as well as dramatic performance enhancements in SQL (due to bitmap index technology). It also includes significant XML-based features. Highlights include: