CAMBRIDGE, MA¾ June 15, 1998¾ Post-relational database specialist InterSystems Corporation today announced that the Department of Justice State of Bern in Switzerland has upgraded to the Caché multidimensional object database. Caché will be used to run Department of Justice applications, replacing its existing Sybase systems.

The Bern Department of Justice is responsible for the infrastructure and organization of the City’s court system, including Judges, Circle Courts, Primary Courts, Registry of Commerce, Bankruptcy Service and the Landmark Registry, employing more than 1,400 workstations installed on 43 different locations across the state of Bern.

"We’ve been using a Sybase database to run our systems for the past two years," said Rolf Streb, IT Manager for Bern’s Department of Justice. "We had a lot of performance and scalability problems with our systems, as well as stability issues on Windows NT. If the systems don’t work properly, it holds up the whole department, and slows down judicial proceedings. From time to time, I take a look at what’s new on the market and evaluate interesting products. I’ve been familiar with InterSystems technology for some time, and after Caché was launched, we decided to evaluate it against our existing systems."

Following a six-month evaluation, Streb and his team were able to port their applications to Caché without changing a single line of application code for the Department’s Business Control System, called Tribuna 2000. Tribuna 2000 regulates all aspects of the Department’s business, including scheduling police appearances before the judge, documentation, court dates and court transcripts, as well as interfacing between the courthouses, district courts and seditions.

Caché is InterSystems’ new post-relational database that uses a multidimensional data model to provide high performance transaction processing capabilities for complex applications.

"We run our systems in pure SQL. From a technical perspective, we find Caché much easier than the old relational database as Caché’s multidimensional model provides dual access (objects and tables), is easier to modify, has more scalability and significant performance gains," said Streb.