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IBM Informix Reviews & Product Details

• 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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13 months

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DURGA PRASAD K.

Human Resources Intern

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/15/2022

"IBM informix is the fast and scalable data base"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Informix?

It is high performance database for integrating SQL,NoSQL,JaSon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Informix comes with the complex pricing policy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/11/2022

"Excellent company"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Informix?

I like the work culture where everybody treats and behaves fair, also you can be able to learn new technologies as well as fair wages and this makes it different from another companies in my opinion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Nothing as such but i would say the time management is not really that good but this is the only part I dislike about the company else everything is good enough Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Art K.

President

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/24/2019

"Informix - Best Relational Database"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Industry leading OLTP performance. The widest set of replication technologies in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

No one seems to know about it who doesn't already use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/17/2021

"Still awesome after all these years"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Informix is really easy to set up and administer. It's fast and very stable. It scales like crazy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

It's difficult to find Informix professionals. I also think it's a bit pricey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rubén D.

CEO

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/9/2015

"Informix is powerfull and easy administration"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Informix is best database for OLTP, Enterprise Replication & High Availability

It is Solid & Stable, Best performance, Minimun administration

It runs without problems with almost all versions of Linux, Unix & Windows (even android)

It is Mulituser, Multiprocesing, Multithreading, Parallel Procesing, MultiServer.

Informix is true 24x7 services.

Informix is true Oriented Object Database

Free Support Groups of Informix (They are friendly and open mind)

Now Informix have new technology like Nosql & Json

Development is easy with 4gl & Eclipse (Java) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

When IBM don't see true value of 4GL

Don't exist a unique tool to access to no traditional data like text,blob,spacial,json/bson and others

Sometimes There is not enough technical support in my country Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Informix:

This database have the best ROI

The performance is the best

The maintenance & administration is minimum

Exists a version of informix for any plataform even for android

You can Use Enterprise Replication with hundred servers without problems

You have on-line documentation

You have free groups for support the database. These groups are friendly like a family Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Implementation of 4GL-ERP Solution. This ERP solution is used in OLTP environment

Data Distributed and High Available using Enterprise Replication and High Data Replication. We have many servers interconnect. We have almost one hundred servers on-line with ER (Enterprise Replication)

Heterogenous environment using Linux, Unix & Windows

Work with documents and images, We have a repository of XML and PDF files inside of database.

Web Solution: The users enter the customer orders with control of portafolio of products and budget by departament.

Electronic documents using WebServices

Development with free tools like java & Aubit 4gl. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lester K.

President

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/23/2019

"my best database"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Informix is very easy to use and a very fast database. The improvements in the lastest version 14.10.FC2 are great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Lack of marketing by IBM for the Informix Products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/9/2020

"The best relational database."

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Reliable

Fast

Easy to manage

Features

Portability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Inability to connect with other tools

Lack of visual explain plan

No material views

No in place alter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jennifer W.

Database Admin/Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/9/2015

"Informix Family Products"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Informix products are reliable & stable. Since 1998, I've worked with a variety of their products and have only had a handful of problems that required intervention from Informix/IBM to help correct. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

In comparison to other databases, it is harder to find resources with much Informix experience at least in our area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Informix:

I have limited experience with other major databases as primarily worked with Informix but I've not ran into features in others that were not option (may be handled differently) in Informix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are providing a customized financial system for our client. Informix is both flexible enough to allow us to easily do Ad Hoc reporting & make changes to our software as needed to meet client's needs. Informix has built in lots of updated features from the first version that I was using that was only an online database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Efrain F.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/13/2019

"Reliable and easy to use are synonyms of Informix!"

4/5

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 meet all quality standards, this is completely stable and extensible for any type of data. The data allows us to use it 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 isn't anything I dislike about Informix, as it has adapted very well to my company's needs, but if there is something that slightly affects its performance, it's that it is single-threaded since it is not capable of taking advantage of multiple processors because it only handles one request at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Informix:

Why would you recommend Informix? Well, Informix is an excellent database manager. If you need to manage multiple databases remotely with a single console, this is the right software, as it will not only allow you to reduce resources when using it, but it will also reduce the work time 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 significantly, as this is software that provides security to each of our operations. Informix helps us connect the relational data of web pages and, what is more important for us, this software can be used since the Java programming language is fundamental in our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Martin A.

Country Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/25/2019

"Solid database"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Informix?

Its ease of installation and use; when it is well configured, it does not require much supervision and monitoring, and the maintenance cost is low. The speed and accuracy of its responses to queries are very good. Informix allows for quick adaptation to new developers by using standard SQL, and its timeserial fields are very precise for generating sequences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Informix?

Its limited distribution in South America leads to the belief that it is a database that is discontinued, but this is not the case. Additionally, it should improve its look and feel, moving from a black or green screen to a more graphical one for its administration and management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Informix:

Let them seek to spread its use more so that it is not believed to be obsolete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The precision in its response times, combined with IWA that accelerates the engine, makes the queries fast. The fact of integrating with MongoDB helps a lot in the trend of unstructured databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.