High-end database for workloads of large companies and international corporations

Overview

When performance and resilience are first and foremost, leading companies in the world rely on Informix. The Enterprise Edition delivers high-end OLTP for global retail, energy suppliers or telecom providers.
Easy to implement high availability through unlimited replication and cluster properties. Sub-data storage for branch offices through enterprise replication. Combinable and multi-client capable cloud scenarios.

Scope and functions

Aside from Data Warehouse, all Informix properties are available without limitation.
Warehouse functionality is reserved for Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition.

A specially licensed Advanced Enterprise Edition for warehouse developers

Overview

Warehouse and business analytics applications are memory and CPU intensive. In production environments, IBM Processor Value Units are used for licensing.
For warehouse developers, Informix Advanced Developer offers a cost-effective alternative by licensing individual users.

Scope and functions

The Informix Advanced Developer Edition is the same as the Advanced Enterprise Edition and offers Authorized User (AU) licensing for individual users. Their use is limited to development and test environments.

The Informix Advanced Workgroup Edition was discontinued in spring 2019 with the introduction of Informix version 14.10 and is no longer available!

Overview

Decision making in seconds based on transaction data.
Informix Advanced Editions enables to build extremely fast data warehouse applications. They combine transaction processing OLTP and in-memory warehouse analyses OLAP in one database system.
The Advanced Workgroup Editione includes five User IBM Cognos Business Intelligence licensing

Scope and functions

Corresponds to the Informix Workgroup Edition and also includes the Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) as a warehouse component.
The edition is limited to 16 CPU cores and 16 GB memory for the Workgroup Edition and 1,600 PVU and 48 GB memory for the Warehouse Accelerator.

Fastest data warehouse and online transaction processing

Overview

Informix Advanced Enterprise Editions is the unlimited platform for applications with very high transaction volumes and simultaneous analysis - high-end OLTP and extremely fast data warehouse in one database.
The included Storage Optimization feature increases performance and lowers storage costs, especially interesting for companies with high data volumes.

Scope and functions

Equivalent to Unlimited Informix Enterprise Edition. The Advanced Enterprise Edition also includes the Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA), as a warehouse component, and the Storage Optimization feature.

The Informix Warehouse Accelarator prefers its own Linux-based machine.
Licensing is exclusively via Processor Value Units (PVUs) or Virtual Processor Cores (VPCs).