The embeddable, high-performance database built for the edge and beyond

What is Informix?

IBM® Informix® is a high performance, always-on, highly scalable and easily embeddable enterprise-class database optimized for the most demanding transactional and analytics workloads. As an object-relational engine, IBM Informix seamlessly integrates the best of relational and object-oriented capabilities enabling the flexible modeling of complex data structures and relationships.

• Seamless, embedded integrations: Run in the smallest capacity across devices and gateways, perfect for edge computing.
• High-performance transactional processing: It processes +2M transactions per second with full consistency, concurrency and resource usage to support hundreds of thousands of users.
• Native support for complex data types: IBM Informix is a multimodal engine natively supporting SQL, NoSQL/JSON, BSON, time-series, spatial-temporal and user-defined types within a single database platform.
• Integration with watsonx™: Gain quick, governed access to your Informix and other data sources with zero-ETL and ensure real-time processing for AI models across the hybrid cloud
• Hybrid cloud deployments: With a containerized version of Informix on the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform, you can more easily deploy on public, private or hybrid clouds.

Benefits

• **Embed seamlessly: **Run Informix across a spectrum of footprints, from as compact as 100 MB (Raspberry Pi) to as expansive as large servers, enabling it to run on edge devices to enterprise-class servers.
• **Build more with any data: **Combine the best of relational and object-oriented capabilities, enabling the flexible modeling of complex data structures and relationships within a single database.
• **Power analytics and AI with real-time data: **Use the new Informix connector of watsonx.data™ to easily access and query multimodal data types in IBM Informix and other data sources with zero-ETL.
• **Enjoy high performance throughput: **Accelerate productivity. IBM Informix is well-suited for always-on transactions and real-time analytics in embedded applications. 
• **Maintain always-on transactions: **Ensure advanced availability, active clustering and cross-region replication for applications across the hybrid cloud.  
• **Streamline hybrid cloud deployment: **Deploy IBM Informix easily anywhere across any cloud.

Editions

• **Informix Developer Edition: **A no-cost IBM® Informix® database server for individual application development, testing and prototyping. Key features include: enterprise replication (ER), unlimited high availability (HA) clusters, built-in autonomics, no required administration, easy upgrading and multiplatform support for UNIX, macOS, Microsoft Windows and ARM.
• **Informix Innovator-C Edition: **A robust database environment that supports small production workloads. Free for development, testing and small production use. Key features include: no up-front costs for embedded or workgroup computing, ability to run virtually unattended with self-configuring and self-managing capabilities, NoSQL support, encryption at rest, limited to one core and a total of 2 GB of RAM and availability on Linux®, macOS and Microsoft Windows.
• **Informix Express Edition: **Ideal for third-party developers who want to embed a database within their applications. Available on all supported platforms, this edition is limited to four cores and a total of 8 GB of RAM. - High availability: Comprehensive set of high-availability options to help use low-cost hardware. - No up-front costs: Ideal for application and third-party developers. - Flexibility: Deploy in diverse environments with basic functionality and scalability.
• **Informix Workgroup Edition: **Targeted for midsize companies or departments looking for a turnkey server for production workloads. Includes all replication options, flexible data storage and utilization, graphical administration and more on all supported platforms. - Fast deployment: A quick and easily deployable turnkey data processing environment. - High availability: Comprehensive set of H/A and other replication options using low-cost hardware to protect your data processing environment. - Efficiency: It uses less than half the H/W as other database engines to achieve comparable performance, which means lower H/W and licensing costs.
• **Informix Enterprise Edition: **Store, access and query data with first-rate efficiency and agility. Gain real-time analytics, always-on transactions and seamless data integration. Includes all Informix features on all supported platforms except for Informix Warehouse Accelerator. - Integration: Enhanced integration with tools and applications to help drive faster access to business intelligence. - Always-on: Always-on operations across the grid, allowing you to upgrade, maintain and configure the grid with no downtime. - Hybrid database system: Supports structured and unstructured data for enhanced flexibility and more agile development.
• **Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition: **Provides the complete suite of Informix features, including Informix Warehouse Accelerator, across all supported platforms for near-limitless scalability and high-speed business intelligence. - Speed: Fast data access and query, even for complex warehouse and operational queries. - Deep compression: Deep compression of tables, indexes and binary large objects (BLOBs). - Efficiency: Efficient development and deployment of time-based and space-based applications without additional license fees or installations.