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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Informix is my favorite work tool because it meets expectations, it is excellent as this software adapts remarkably to our OLTP server thanks to its architecture, which makes the work we do in our company meet all quality standards, this is completely stable and extensible for any type of data. The data allows us to use it in many areas of our work, thus improving our performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

There really isn't anything I dislike about Informix, as it has adapted very well to my company's needs, but if there is something that slightly affects its performance, it is that it is single-threaded since it is not capable of taking advantage of multiple processors because it only handles one request at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Informix:

Why would I recommend Informix? Well, Informix is an excellent database manager. If you need to manage multiple databases remotely with a single console, this is the right software, as it will not only allow you to reduce resources when you use it, but it will also reduce work time. This time can be used in other functions, thus increasing the productivity of your employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

Thanks to Informix, our company has benefited significantly, as this is software that provides security to each of our operations. Informix helps us connect the relational data of web pages and, what is more important for us, this software can be used since the Java programming language is fundamental in our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is IBM Informix?

• Harness data with broad functionality and unlimited scalability. IBM Informix is a secure embeddable database, optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things (IoT) data. Informix has the unique ability to seamlessly integrate SQL, NoSQL/JSON, time series and spatial data. Everyone from developers to global enterprises can benefit from its reliability, flexibility, ease of use and low total cost of ownership. • Optimize business decisions Perform analytics close to data sources to enhance local decision making. Access business intelligence faster with enhanced integration with various tools and applications. • Eliminate downtime Ensure always-on operations across your grid environment. Upgrade, maintain and configure the grid with no downtime. Successfully meet service-level agreements. • Improve development agility Support both structured and unstructured data with a hybrid database system for enhanced flexibility and easier development. • IBM Informix is available on-premise and on the IBM Cloud. IBM Informix on Cloud offers the complete feature set of on-premises Informix deployments. Run your OLTP queries and workloads on an optimized instance and use the Informix warehouse accelerator to configure in-memory query acceleration for predictive analytics. Get the benefits of Informix without the cost, complexity and risk of managing your own infrastructure. IBM Informix V14.10 enhances all editions, bringing improvements to performance, security, administration, and core database capabilities including support for online transaction processing (OLTP) and replication workloads, timeseries and spatial data. Discover why many of the world’s most innovative companies depend on IBM Informix.

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• Harness data with broad functionality and unlimited scalability. IBM Informix is a secure embeddable database, optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things (IoT) data. Informix has the unique ability to seamlessly integrate SQL, NoSQL/JSON, time series and spatial data. Everyone from developers to global enterprises can benefit from its reliability, flexibility, ease of use and low total cost of ownership. • Optimize business decisions Perform analytics close to data sources to enhance local decision making. Access business intelligence faster with enhanced integration with various tools and applications. • Eliminate downtime Ensure always-on operations across your grid environment. Upgrade, maintain and configure the grid with no downtime. Successfully meet service-level agreements. • Improve development agility Support both structured and unstructured data with a hybrid database system for enhanced flexibility and easier development. • IBM Informix is available on-premise and on the IBM Cloud. IBM Informix on Cloud offers the complete feature set of on-premises Informix deployments. Run your OLTP queries and workloads on an optimized instance and use the Informix warehouse accelerator to configure in-memory query acceleration for predictive analytics. Get the benefits of Informix without the cost, complexity and risk of managing your own infrastructure. IBM Informix V14.10 enhances all editions, bringing improvements to performance, security, administration, and core database capabilities including support for online transaction processing (OLTP) and replication workloads, timeseries and spatial data. Discover why many of the world’s most innovative companies depend on IBM Informix.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Informix is a fast database platform with a rich set of features that powers both OLTP and OLAP workloads ensuring data is available at all times helping customers successfully meet service-level agreements (SLAs).
Informix is easy to use, deploy and has a small footprint with many self-managing features and can be up and running in minutes. Integration of SQL, NoSQL/JSON, time series and spatial data coupled with reliability, flexibility, ease of use all contribute to a low total cost of ownership.

There are two no-cost Informix editions available - Informix Developer Edition for application and development purposes and Informix Innovator-C Edition for small production workloads. Both editions are also available from the Docker Hub.

Informix is available on the cloud as part of IBM's cloud offerings with the same great features as the Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition Server.


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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

The best thing about informix is its onstat commands to see database stats. This is real quick and gives you output direct from memory. This probably is one of the best utility when you are troubleshooting. Apart from that, setting up replication is super easy. One of the best database i have ever used Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

there is nothing which i dislike about this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

Earlier we were having issues with the application performance when we were on oracle 11g. But then we migrated from Oracle to Informix and we have seen our application is just flying like anything. Response time was super awesome and failover was mindblowing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

The client is easy to use. Short keys and cross-database operations are very convenient. It is easy to write a shell to operate different databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Its performance doesn't as good as Oracle's in massive data. So we have to divide the database into small databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

My company used it for core business applications for its convenience. And it's easy for data replication to do business analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

The best part of this tool is that it comes from the IBM family, which makes it easy to use, and it has great support from the IT team. I consolidated my three apps' data in one database, and it never failed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Its pricing is what makes it not that popular in the market and because of this sharing of database or hiring people makes it difficult. Creating databse is bit difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

For me, support and storing data in the cloud was the most needed, which got fulfilled with quality. Loading and modifying data in IBM Informix is speedy and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Faiza A.
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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Ease of use in regards with relational database management system (RDBMS) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Londer learning curve but this is not an actual issue, I believe nothing much is needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

To manage high-volume transactional workloads while maintaining high-performance data processing capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Informix look and feel is superb. Onstat's command will give you all the details of database. I have used other databases as well but no one can beat IBM Informix. It's fast, stable and secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

What i dislike is when it generates Assertion failure we have to log a case to know weather we have been hit by a defect or what could be the cause of this assertion. Although support team responds very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

In other databases we have not been getting good response time, so we have been compromising response time from years until we started using IBM informix. Our response time with same application logic increases by 60%. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harshana J.
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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Ability to provide SQL output in simple manner. Once DB is installed configured, it is very reliable and robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Some of the drawbacks in Procedure handling, syntax issues. Unable detect exact issue easiliy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

Use with 4GL. Two dimensional arrays Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Makhshif T.
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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Its ability of integration of multiple databases including SQL and NoSQL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Not being fully free. This is an absolute product and this will be best if we can have ability to have hands on it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

Integration of multiple databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Perform metrics is out of the box.

IBM Support for Informix should be improved but overall okay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Less articles related with INFORMIX management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

OLTP Workload Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Online indexing, real time replication, comprehensive query optimizer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Update statistics for all referenced tables/SPs for any structural change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

Used for OLTP system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DURGA PRASAD K.
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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

It is high performance database for integrating SQL,NoSQL,JaSon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Informix comes with the complex pricing policy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Informix solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is absolutely secure,fast and flexible data base,it successfully meet all the requirements of customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.