IBM Informix

The simplicity to manage huge amounts of data is really amazing. The data can also be easily accessed when needed. Customizing information and data for our customers in ways that it is easier for them to understand. Informix helps us to connect 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.

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.

Informix is best suited for almost every business. OLTP and OLAP application, NoSql, IoT, all these areas are very well done with Informix.

Highly recommended for:

• Transactional operations.
• Embedded database, like in IoT.
• Full end to end IoT integration.
• Solutions requiring database extensibility.
• Support for hybrid data structures (relational and NoSQL).

Not recommended for:

• Storing text data, even if the text datablade is a great product, now integrated, it is not designed for this.

Informix is very well suited for either OLTP and OLAP transaction processing. This means that it has the best technology, concentrating both business requirements: transactional and analytical processing at the same time, as well as being able to store and process structured and unstructured data at the same time as well, and able to scale up and out if needed or required.

This is why Informix is able to adapt to almost any sort of environment and satisfy almost any sort of requirement, even if the requirement is to be embedded in hardware! This last is possible because it it requires zero support and maintenance, as it can be self tuned and self healed. One of the main scenarios which is nowadays getting promoted for is the IoT one. Starting from mid 90's Informix incorporated the extensibility concept through the datablades it had brought from Illustra. This is why it is pioneer in the TimeSeries and GeoSpatial (tracking moving objects) technology, with the fastest and best storing TimeSeries techniques and GeoSpatial functionalities. The Wire Listener is one of the best features Informix has introduced to its suit of functionalities, can work in three different scenarios API types: MQTT, REST and MONGO, supporting IoT, MongoDB (an application using MongoDB can be redirected as it is to Informix-Mongo without changes) and able to understand HTTP functions (POST, GET, PUT, etc).