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    IBM Informix

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AInformix is an embedded relational database offering from IBM.N/A

    VictoriaMetrics Community

    Score5.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    VictoriaMetrics Community is an open source time series database used for large-scale monitoring and observability. A Prometheus drop-in replacement, it handles high-cardinality metrics with up to 10x less storage. It is used in production at CERN, Grammarly, and Adidas.

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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    User Ratings
    IBM InformixVictoriaMetrics Community
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    8.5
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    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    Usability
    10.0
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    IBM InformixVictoriaMetrics Community
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    IBM Informix creates an effective and secure channel for easy and quick data management and transfer across other major Cloud platforms and other data storage systems. The analytical ability is also the best and most effective visual functionalities and the encryption and the data archiving functionalities are great and easy on reporting.
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    VictoriaMetrics
    Best suited, where your data is highly cardinal since it does a better job at maintaining it than other competitors. It is also well suited if you are using Prometheus and are looking for something that is less hungry for resources in comparison since the migration would be easier. But in case the company is small and wants a solution which is cheap and relies on built-in visualizations, it is not something that is suited. Although it takes fewer resources than Prometheus, it is still resource-intensive and attracts a high cost for maintenance.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Industry leading OLTP performance.
    • Excellent Data Warehouse performance from the basic engine. Outstanding Data Warehouse performance from the Informix Warehouse Accelerator module.
    • Best embedability among major RDBMS systems.
    • Scalable from the smallest Raspberry PI up to the largest monolithic systems and out to dozens of distributed nodes.
    • Hybrid data capabilities to merge relational data with time seriesv, geospacial data, JSON data and other non-traditional data types with performance comparable or better than systems dedicated to those data types.
    • The latest release, v15.0, removes nearly all internal limits. Informix now supports database sizes up to 0.5 Yottabytes!
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    VictoriaMetrics
    • Easy to configure and manage
    • Ready to be configured at cloud and microservices
    • Easy to scale vertically and horizontally
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    Cons
    IBM
    • It is very difficult to find a missing functionality in Informix, technically is great. I will again criticize the business side and how it has been managed over the past, I hope this could be improved with HCL's help. I know they are working hard, but we need to start letting the world know and revert their concept about its existence and that it is one of the best competitors within the data treatment, in the market. We need to start telling the world about success cases and stories showing this and backing up its strong technology.
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    VictoriaMetrics
    • Community and Eco system -> Although it supports the ecosystem of Prometheus, it is still troublesome for someone who's not using Prometheus
    • Configuration is not so easy, especially if you are a beginner, you will struggle a bit. Even the documentation is not so welcoming for beginners
    • Built-in Visualisation is bare minimal, leading almost everyone to use some other extension/tool
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    Informix is the best RDBMS on the market. Period.
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    Usability
    IBM
    Server management is easy enough to be able to embed the engine in a device and let it run for years without maintenance.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    The Informix product support team has won awards and is appreciated by the entire Informix user community.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    IBM Informix creates effective solutions for big data extraction and data transportation functionalities across the entire Cloud services and the Automation ability is the best. The security that IBM Informix provides for all our business data and other project information and contacts is effective and the reports are very clean and easy to understand.
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    VictoriaMetrics
    Prometheus only support PromQL and it is very complex with different exporter required for different requirement like Windowsexporter,linixexporter,sqlexporter etc but VictoriaMetrics is very simple comapred to it. VictoriaMetrics support both PromQL and MetricQL and can be integrated with Graphana easily. It is very easy to setup and learn compared to mutiple Prometheus exporters
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Although I do not own nor have visibility on my company's figures:
    • Informix generates consistent savings on DBA staffing, no need for many DBAs as other DBMS require.
    • The replication architecture allowed consistent savings in the infrastructure as well as developments and maintenance, the job is already done, no need to develop complex and costly solutions, it's just a matter of configuring it.
    • The advantages of hybrid development (i.e mixing SQL and NoSQL in the same database) is not just a marketing hype: it allowed us to solve with a brilliant solution, in one afternoon of coding, a functional problem we have been having for more than 10 years!
    • The biggest drawback is that IBM pricing may be constraining, it has too important gaps between the mid range and highrange in terms of pricing
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    VictoriaMetrics
    • Lowered our infra costs in comparison with our older tools
    • Need minimal effort for migration since it already supports Prometheus ecosystem
    • Saved on Storage costs
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