Broad functionality for all supported platforms with unlimited scalability
IBM® Informix® Ultimate Edition includes all Informix features on all supported platforms for development, deployment and distribution with unlimited scalability. It allows for unlimited data storage, processors and memory. Informix Ultimate Edition includes full IBM Informix Flexible Grid functionality and cluster capabilities.
Informix Ultimate Edition delivers many benefits:
- Informix Flexible Grid enables simplified replication setup and maintenance for replication grids, including unlimited replication nodes and all high-availability cluster secondary types.
- Storage enhancements help improve availability, reduce costs and speed search times.
- Security features includes high-availability data replication and advanced access control to gain greater control of your sensitive data.
- Spatial data warehouses can be implemented with business intelligence tools to transform both traditional and location-based data into essential information.
Informix Flexible Grid
- Schedule maintenance and upgrades to give users continuous access to data without any downtime.
- Use different hardware or operating systems, or different versions of Informix from cluster to cluster.
- Manage your environment and automatically update database schemas throughout the grid from a single location.
- Enable web-based services and cloud computing with a profile and feature set that is well-suited to virtualization.
Storage enhancements
- Build a cluster of Informix instances around a single set of shared storage devices using the Continuous Availability Feature.
- Get load-balancing or continuously available data services, even if one or more servers fail.
- Deliver up to 80 percent savings on disk space and a 20 percent improvement on input/output with the optional Storage Optimization Feature.
- Reduce data volumes for shorter backup and restore operations, faster search times and more efficient use of memory.
Security features
- High-availability data replication supports disaster recovery and continuous log restore, point-time instance-wide restore, and table-level backup and recovery.
- Advanced access control enables cell-, column- and row-level label-based access control.
- Capabilities let you control data access down to an individual cell of information.
Spatial data warehouses
- The IBM Informix SQL Warehousing Tool, a graphical environment that works with the Design Studio, enables you to build in-database data movements and transformations into your warehouse.
- The IBM Informix Spatial DataBlade® provides SQL-based spatial data types and functions that can be used directly through standard SQL queries or with client-side geographic information systems software.
- You can generate units of code that are organized inside execution plans, and use a metadata system and an integrated development environment to create, edit and manage these flows. A code-generation system translates the flow models into optimized SQL code to test-run, schedule and execute.
Informix Ultimate Edition resources
- Trial software: Informix Ultimate Edition
Download a 90-day, no-charge trial of Informix Ultimate Edition software.
- Demo: IBM Informix: The Foundation of Smarter Businesses
Learn how IBM Informix provides the foundation that elevates business—driving innovation, reaching new markets, improving performance and reducing data storage costs.
- Analyst report: The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Informix Database Server
Read this report by Forrester Consulting on the total economic impact and potential return on investment that organizations may realize by deploying Informix database software.
- Analyst report: Cost/Benefit Case for IBM Informix
International Technology Group reports that Informix offers a lower total cost of ownership than competitive platforms, such as Microsoft SQL Server.
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