What are the IBM Informix Features and Benefits?
In literal terms, the IBM Informix provides an Informix database on IBM cloud, and it offers customers the rich features of an on-premises Informix deployment while assisting to reduce the cost, complexity and risk of managing your own infrastructure. Informix on cloud, especially brings you a high-performance engine that integrates time series, spatial, NoSQL and SQL data together with easy access through MQTT, REST and MongoDB APIs as a whole. Some of the features of IBM Informix are as follows:
o High-performance technology
IBM Informix offers a cleaner indexes and improved memory management for more-efficient use of memory and processors. It also supports enhanced buffer priority management for more-efficient use of large amounts of memory for today’s 64-bit operating systems. Apart from that it supports smarter query optimization including that of user-defined type costing with new spatial data types, and shortened instruction sets for common tasks, as well as that of reduced contention between concurrent users.
o Scalability
Informix offers data capacity of a single instance with a quick enhancement from 4TB to 128PB. Whereas, Informix maximum chunk size increases from 2GB to 4 TB, and maximum number of chunks increases from 2,048 to 32K. On the other hand, the maximum LVARCHAR size increased from 2KB to 32KB, and its DBMS utility file size limit increased from 2GB to 17 billion GB.
o Security
Informix offer highest level of security especially from all kind of data breaches, and at the same time, it offers secured over-the-wire encryption using the industry-standard OpenSSL encryption libraries, and configurable user authentication mechanisms using Pluggable Authentication Modules, especially for your confidential data files.
o System management
Informix storage manager support in the browser-based ISA, and automated backup and restore functions to increase media efficiency by tape-handling utilities and also offers more flexible restore options so that your database management system works with more efficiency and offers security to your sensitive data files.
o Application development
Informix basically support SQL language enhancements, and also expanded Unicode support. On the other hand, it also works on multiple collation support, silent installation, and continued support of IBM Informix 4GL, SQL, ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, SQLJ, and.NET driver as a whole.
Unlike it features, some of the benefits of IBM Informix are as follows o One of the key benefits of IBM Informix database is that it has been used in many high transaction rate OLTP applications in the retail, finance, energy and utilities, manufacturing and transportation sectors. More recently the server has been updated to improve its support for data warehouse workloads. o Another astounding feature of IBM Informix is that the Informix server supports all kinds of object–relational model, which has permitted IBM to offer extensions that support data types that are not a part of the SQL standard. The most widely used of these are the JSON, BSON, time series and spatial extensions, which provide both data type support and language extensions that permit high performance domain specific queries and efficient storage for data sets based on semi-structured, time series, and spatial data.
In conclusion, it can be said that Informix is often compared to IBM's other major database product like DB2, which is offered on the mainframe zSeries platform as well as on Windows, Unix and Linux. There is also certain speculation around the corner that IBM would combine Informix with DB2, or with other database products has proven to be unfounded. On the other hand, IBM has instead continued to expand the variety of database products it offers, such as Netezza, a data warehouse appliance, and Cloudant, a NoSQL database. IBM has described its approach to the market as providing workload optimized systems as a whole.
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