A partnership to speed innovation of IBM Informix
What is Informix?
The IBM® Informix® database is fast and flexible so you can seamlessly integrate SQL, NoSQL or JSON, and time series and spatial data. The versatility and ease of use make Informix a preferred solution for a wide range of environments, from enterprise data warehouses to individual app development. With its small footprint and self-managing capabilities, Informix is well suited for embedded data management solutions.
Informix is ready to take advantage of hybrid cloud infrastructure, helping reduce costs and accelerate time to value. Informix on IBM Cloud Pak for Data is fully containerized and available to run on your preferred cloud — public, private or hybrid.
Clients in the world’s most innovative companies depend on Informix. Learn why — in their own words — in this G2 Crowd report, Informix Software: An Embedded Database for the Edge and Beyond (PDF, 1.7 MB).
Key features
Real-time analytics
The single Informix platform helps you power transactional workloads easily in a wide range of environments to enable analytics-driven insights quickly.
Fast, always-on transactions
To support mission-critical environments, Informix includes high-availability data replication (HADR), remote secondary standby database servers and shared-disk secondary servers. The flexible grid feature also enables rolling upgrades with no outages.
Fewer data management hassles
Informix offers easy deployment features like “smart triggers” that implement event-driven processing and database push notifications, with no schema changes. This allows you to automate your data management and focus on your core business.
Simplicity
With a silent installation and small footprint that requires just 100 MB of memory, Informix is simple and non-disruptive. Self-managing capabilities make it ideal as an embedded data management solution. Informix can be up and running in minutes.
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Editions
Informix is available in editions for developers and for enterprises with feature sets, deployment options and prices to fit your needs.
Embedded for IoT
Informix includes design concepts uniquely suited to embedded device challenges — high performance, more functionality and simplified admin.
Informix developer tools
These tools, including Informix Client SDK, help simplify the integrated design, development, testing and administration of Informix.
Choose your deployment option
Client stories
Petrosoft
Petrosoft makes operations safer and increases profits using Informix to collect and analyze data from IoT devices.
SmartAxiom
SmartAxiom cuts development time by 30% and runs database software 20% faster using Informix to reduce downtime.
Get a closer look at Informix
Informix — UTMDB
Informix — virtual processors
Informix — checkpoints
Informix — OS memory
