1. Home
  2. Embedded Database Systems
  3. IBM Informix Reviews
  4. User Review of IBM Informix
IBM Informix, the unknown wonderful database
March 23, 2018

IBM Informix, the unknown wonderful database

Jean Georges Perrin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Informix

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.
  • Ease of use.
  • Quick ROI.
  • Efficient community.
You could use any other relational database, but they will be either expensive to maintain or won't scale as much.
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.