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What is IBM Informix?
Informix is an embedded relational database offering from IBM.
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July 24, 2022
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Score 8 out of 10
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Informix brings our team the best functionality, openness and reliability for our customers, and allows developers and customers to avoid having cumbersome time configuring. Managing huge amounts of different data with rapid retrieval process. Informax also helps us in project management with its hybrid data capabilities.We can provide our customers with customized information and datas.
- Data management
- Hybrid data capabilities
- Project management
- The support system.
- Efficiency when working with remote databases.
- Public integration with open source softwares.
IBM Informix is an excellent Cloud solution with flexible capabilities and a very reliable solution for large project data management. The data protection and effective data migration functions on IBM Informix are very amazing and the end results services quality is effective. The interface configuration and easy data analytics creation of IBM Informix is fantastic.
- The SQL capability is effective.
- Project management is very simple.
- Data transfer speed is profitable.
- No major on this system just the security setting.
- Big data transfer slows performance.
- Ability to manage huge amount of different data type requires a professional.
January 31, 2022
A point of view on Informix IDS and tools
Score 10 out of 10
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I've started working with Informix l as a developer. It was a very interesting experience as Informix 4gl is a very good development tool. It consists of two parts: One part for designing screens and another part for writing code that easily uses these screens to form a complete business application including a report engine that lets you create reports very easily. After that, I've started working on IDS version 7 as an administrator. I've discovered a powerful engine with a unique architecture that runs as an operating system where you can tune every part of this incredible machine, starting with its virtual processors and ending with flexible disk storage. Informa IDS is multithreaded (is there any other DB engine that can do the same?). I've also had an exciting experience with Genero, a development tool that can take your Informix 4gl application and change its text interface to a graphical one and deploy it on a web server. Instead of rewriting your 4gl code with any framework, just load it on Genero studio and see the result. Actually, if you try to develop the same application with another framework, it will cost you a lot without success.
- Can manage very small to very big databases
- It's easy to administer, tune it and let it go!!!
- It's very stable, especially if you choose to install it on Unix/Linux machines.
- Improve marketing. People don't know what they can gain by choosing Informix IDS and tools
March 23, 2018
IBM Informix, the unknown wonderful database
IBM Informix is a relational database. In our context, it is used for transactional operations (OLTP). It is used across the organization, for different products and processes. We use it for its high scalability.
- High scalability.
- Easy to maintain.
- Great user group (IIUG).
- Highly embeddable.
- Can be expensive for the top editions.
I support business and government organizations that use Informix worldwide. Clients use Informix for OLTP applications as well as Data Warehouse and Decision Support analytics. Database sizes range from several GB to tens of TB. Industries include retail, wholesale, electric utilities, online gaming, online gambling, information processing, financial records management and financial transactions, court record keeping, government taxation units, etc. For most of these organizations Informix manages and secures mission-critical data.
- 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.
- Honestly, not much. IBM and HCL have excellent product feature feedback mechanisms with an online system for users to offer feature improvements and suggestions. Many are incorporated in new releases. The latest includes two such user suggested features for example.
March 14, 2018
The Basal Stone.
I used Informix in my past job. I was the Informix company's referent within the company. Informix was the main engine, and at the time I had started working there in 2004, it was one of the largest Informix DBs in the UK.
Informix was very stable, robust, reliable and with great performance, this is why it was the main platform. In the DB farm, Informix had the highest uptime, with the lowest outages, even planned ones were very short. In addition to Informix we were using Oracle/SQLSvr and MySQL. It had the least number of technical issues, and never had to be patched due to the quarterly received vulnerability patching report (Please check this Patching Vulnerability Analysis in my Blog, it is in Spanish, but nowadays can be easily translated to any language.
In terms of business problems, Informix always suffered from the lack of and emptiness of marketing and very bad management, to the point, to make many people think that Informix was a dead or became an old engine! Now with the latest agreement between IBM and HCL, we hope this could change for better and improve in the following years.
Informix was very stable, robust, reliable and with great performance, this is why it was the main platform. In the DB farm, Informix had the highest uptime, with the lowest outages, even planned ones were very short. In addition to Informix we were using Oracle/SQLSvr and MySQL. It had the least number of technical issues, and never had to be patched due to the quarterly received vulnerability patching report (Please check this Patching Vulnerability Analysis in my Blog, it is in Spanish, but nowadays can be easily translated to any language.
In terms of business problems, Informix always suffered from the lack of and emptiness of marketing and very bad management, to the point, to make many people think that Informix was a dead or became an old engine! Now with the latest agreement between IBM and HCL, we hope this could change for better and improve in the following years.
- Informix since its conception has a distinct multi-threading architecture no other engine has, it is unique of its kind. This is precisely how the engine is able to scale up like no other, with the lowest footprint, without killing the host and profiting each bit of the hardware. The threads are sub-proceses like any other one, but the difference is that they are are not controlled by the OS process dispatcher. This is why you will never be able to see these threads running at OS level. Informix is an OS itself, on top of the OS.
- Informix has the best replication techniques. Not many ppl know that MongoDB (the NoSQL engine) scales out because of its data sharding replication technology, and Informix is able to store Mongo BSON documents using the same data partitioning as MongoDB does. This way Informix extends the SQL or structured data with the unstructured data natively, together within the same data repository. This means that it is not only able to store JSON/BSON documents, but the engine is able to behave as it would be the MongoDB engine itself. Any application using MongoDB can be redirected to the Informix Mongo wire listener transparently. What´s more, it also improves the NoSQL (BASE) characteristic, making it ACID by allowing transactions to the CRUD operations. This last is something MongoDB is working on, promised to be delivered next year.
- As described previously, MongoDB's sharding concept relies on data partitioning, this is how it scales out, and as I also described previously Informix scales up given the described multithreading unique architecture! It implements the data sharding with one of its best replication technologies called Enterprise Replication. This is an Active-Active replication technology that allows replicating even between different platforms. This is actually how I managed to migrate the whole Informix platform from Solaris to Linux, with just a DNS change. There was almost ZERO downtime nor application change - this was really amazing!.
- 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.
I assist several companies using Informix, which are in different sectors. Some use exclusively Informix, others use Informix for their most critical applications. Most appreciated characteristics of Informix are: robustness or near zero downtime, capacity to scale horizontally and vertically, simplicity and low cost of administration, and ultimately the capacity to handle on the same engine structured SQL data with unstructured NoSQL data, MongoDB style.
- Informix is very stable. It has stayed up and running for years. The only downtimes we had were due to planned power outages. This is a mandatory quality required in a industrial environment.
- Informix has a very rich and extended replication system that allows many useful functionalities:
- High Availability
- Tables or part of tables replication, both ways
- Replication patterns like 1 to many servers and sharing storage between 2 servers
- All these replication techniques can be combined together and we love the simplicity of their set up.
- Informix has been featuring NoSQL datatype ( JSON/BSON) for almost 5 years now, including the NoSQL MongoDB style language.
- Once you have loaded your MongoDBdata into Informix, you can run any application compatible with the MongoDB 3.0 stack
- The biggest advantage of this solution is that you can execute joins with SQL Structured tables and NoSQL collections alltogether, either in SQL language or in NoSQL language.
- I heard recently that Informix is available on AWS, with a very wide range of configurations from very small to very big. This is something we would like to look at
- Informix runs on gateway devices, like for instance Raspberry PI / Arm based nano computer or Intel Quark based. This is the same product that works on bigger platforms, including the replication architecture that makes IOT applications much easier to develop and maintain.
- Informix is also directly accessible thru the REST protocol, with is a great asset for IOT applications, based on Node JS, Python, running on nanocomputers. This makes those applications much tinier in terms of resource comsumption, as well as efficient.
- The name of Informix is almost invisible on the market, which is very frustrating. This give the feeling that IBM is not interested in Informix without providing any reasons for why IBM makes no effort to sell Informix.
- The pricing policy is very complex