We performed a comparison between IBM Informix and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."IBM Informix benefits users with high availability and good integration capabilities."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"For IoT business cases, having Informix Enterprise Edition work on edge computers, like Raspberry Pi and using Informix replication, makes complex situations simple to build and maintain."
"The most valuable feature is concurrency and locking because my customers usually use databases in OLTP mode. So, for a large number of competitive users. Other features that are well valued are quick large-scale data types. It is better than Oracle."
"It supports in-house-built applications in .NET and VB6"
"The scalability is very good."
"So far, we do not have a lot of issues. It's pretty problem-free."
"Replication, all levels of replication, query charting, and the MongoDB embedded are the most valuable features of this solution."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it is comparatively simpler to manage than Oracle."
"I use the menu on the management view credit section to get information from the database."
"It's more user-friendly than most databases."
"Backups hardly get corrupt."
"Its security is good. The GUI of SQL Server is also very good."
"SQL Server is similar to other Microsoft products, such as BI, they are easy to use. You do not need to have an expensive BD to maintain them. All the useful intuitive features you find in Microsoft solutions you will find in SQL Server."
"Its usability is very good. Its performance is satisfactory."
"The performance is reliable."
"The technical support services need substantial improvement."
"It would be helpful to have IBM salespeople know that Informix exists, and sell it. Currently, it is completely ignored by IBM."
"This product could be made easier to use for beginners."
"I would like to see backups from secondary servers."
"In my opinion, the packages could be improved. The version I use doesn't allow for packages. I can do some general procedures, but no packages like in Oracle. So, develop separate modules in SQL language. This would be most beneficial for me."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"I experienced poor input/output (IO) performance."
"The solution really doesn't add new features very often."
"In my experience, I've found that scalability can be improved."
"The scalability is adequate but could improve."
"The performance is not always the best."
"Scalability of the database could be improved if it could handle increased volumes of data."
"The security features of the solution could be better."
"SQL Server doesn't have proper bitmap indexing, proper columnar databases, or proper implementation of materialized views."
"We experience latency at times when there is a lot of data being processed."
"It would be nice if there was a feature to search for a specific value across multiple tables. This would save a lot of time for its users."
IBM Informix is ranked 15th in Relational Databases Tools with 16 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. IBM Informix is rated 8.6, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Informix writes "Quite stable and flexible but not very innovative". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". IBM Informix is most compared with Oracle Database, IBM Db2 Database, MySQL, MariaDB and Teradata, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and Tableau. See our IBM Informix vs. SQL Server report.
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