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IBM Informix Overview

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.

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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?

Informix brings me my team the best functionality, openness and reliability for our customers, and allows developers and customers to avoid having cumbersome time configuring and running Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Informix is for us the best DBMS on the market, unfortunately the vendor IBM ignores that fact and does almost no marketing for it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Although you will see poor marketing, Informix is according to our expectations the best choice in terms of DBMS if your team wants to concentrate on applications, not on DBMS issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Trust: we don't to care about reliabilty. Informix has a huge runtime. Some of our customer have 2000 days uptime.

Informix allows to handle multiple data types such as SQL and NoSql, making it extreemly easily to solve business problems that cannot be resolve with a 'traditional' RDBMS or Nosql DBMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

In my opinion, one of the best programs is IBM Informix, because Informix offers multiple advantages, such as the implementation of an intelligent tool that keeps events controlled without changing the main scheme.

Informix is also an easy implementation software, because it is very easy to use and Informix has a unique feature to unify time series and spatial data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

I really do not think I have problems using IBM Informix, because it is a very complete and very useful software, although I would like you to modify the prices of the license packages, because they are a bit expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Informix:

My recommendations for anyone who wants to use informix, is to trust the promises of IBM Informix, because I myself witness the profitability and reliability of the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Among the benefits that Informix has brought to my company are incredible performance, incredibly light management, excellent uptime and integration with almost all development platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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 since this software adapts remarkably to our OLTP server thanks to its architecture, which makes the work we do in our company comply with all quality standards , this is completely stable and extensible to any type of data. The data allow us to use them 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 is not something that I dislike about Informix since it has adapted very well to the needs of my company but if there is anything that affects its performance a little it is that it is single- Threaded since it is not able to take advantage of multiple processors because which only deals with one request at a time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Why would I recommend informix? well, informix is an excellent database manager, if you need to manage multiple databases remotely with only a single console this is the indicated software, since not only will it allow you to reduce resources when using it but it will also reduce the time of work that 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 remarkably since this is a software that confers security to each one of our opreciones. Informix helps us to connect relational data of web pages and even more important for us this software can be used with the language of Java programming being this fundamental in our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

It's rock-solid, fast and diverse, easily the best option for OLTP, data warehouse, and modern technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

IBM doesn't market the database to the public or its own sales reps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Informix:

Informix is a rock-solid database that will grow with your company while providing all modern technologies. It very rarely has downtime, provides solid and diverse replication options, has built-in JSON/BSON, TimeSeries, and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have a company that focuses on Informix and other IBM data and analytics solutions. My Informix customers love the product and never have problems. It was the primary source of success for my company for both services and software sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The small install size and ability to run on meager hardware makes Informix ideal for any situation, whether it be a POC running on a Raspberry Pi or a multi million dollar server in a production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

IBM's licensing model can alienate some long-time customers. It should be more clear and transparent, and likely more competitive with peer products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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While Informix has relatively small notoriety factor in the industry it is installed nearly everywhere. It's ease of admin makes it less noticeable in most corporations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Informix internally to collect monitoring data from multiple clients where we are their "remote database administrators". We analyze this collected data to report on anomalies and show trends to the customers to be proactive with maintenance and assist them when issues occur. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Most reliable database ever used. Never goes down. with the correct configuration, it can handle thousand of TPS with moderate hardware resources. It has been a live saving in my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Database management tools were a bit skimpy in prior versions, but InformixHQ have to come to the rescue and made it easy to fine tune for speed, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Constant Business continuity is a key part of our operation. Informix provides that via its "always on" status, key utilities to proactively search and solve problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Informix is easy to setup and operate and it is very dependable to stay up and running for years uniterrupted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

What I dislike is not about the product itself but more with the lack of wider market recognition due to lack of marketing for it in large Corporate circles primarily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Informix:

Make sure you talk to other users of Informix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have been solving all sorts of vertical market problems ranging from education/schools to engineering to finance to insurance to manufacturing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Informix is extremely flexible and is extremely fast.There has been nothing data related that I have not been able to solve, With the continued development efforts of HCL and IBM it continues to evolve and stay relevant and stay at the edge of database technology. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

The complexity of complying with licensing and the fact that development/test licenses are too restricted. if I can not effectively build my production like environment in development/test it will never be trusted in production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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This is not a Dead product, it is growing and expanding. It is easily implemented into all supported platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Providing a responsive system for 8000+ users and delivering timely information to a fast paced business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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IBM is well known for delivering great softwares with multiple options to use throughout companies or enterprises, and something that I find the best thing in the world is its performance, among other features, this combined with its ease of use and a receptive support team makes Informix a great software to talk about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

How expensive is this product, even though is known that IBM delivers tons of softwares but with higher prices than others, this software in particular is very expensive but for doing the things this software does I would rather pay all the money I can for this software, totally worth it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Informix:

If you're looking for databases monitoring, editing, creation, modification and things related to DB provided to clients, IBM Informix is the right software for what you're looking to give clients a taste of. This software is pretty easy to maintain even though its price doesn't show that at the very first beginning but once implemented your expenses on maintaining this software are going to be very low. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For us, Informix has provided so far reliability for our stable database platforms and the core services and systems we as third-party provider give to our clients is carefully distributed around or private clouds and backup clouds as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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As a developer, the thing I like most about using Informix is that I don't have to focus my time on configuring and maintaining my database environments. Getting and keeping things up and running is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

The trouble I deal with with Informix right now is that it seems the good documentation seems to have disappeared and it is very difficult to find really good, in-depth developer documentation with varied examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Informix:

Don't listen to any marketing/sales arguments about market share. Informix provides the best ROI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using Informix to allow our customers to use our applications without the need for a full time DBA.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.