We performed a comparison between IBM Informix and MySQL 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."The stability is incredible. I have customers with uptimes of several years."
"It supports multiple applications and business intelligence tools."
"The solution's stability, performance, enhanced functionality, and replication are all great features."
"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."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"This solution has made financial reporting possible by allowing financial people the opportunity to set Informix to "Auto Pilot" so that they can attend other duties."
"It supports in-house-built applications in .NET and VB6"
"IBM Informix benefits users with high availability and good integration capabilities."
"This product is a good teaching tool for students who want to learn about networked databases."
"The solution is very simple. It's easy to use. That's the most important feature."
"The solution is great for small applications in particular."
"I like MySQL's feature that helps to automate things."
"The tool is open-source and there is no cost involved in its use."
"The product is flexible and easy to use."
"The initial setup was pretty straightforward. I would have worked with our IT team in terms of the initial setup."
"Compared to other databases, MySQL is cheaper and we were using the community edition which was free of cost. ML is fully integrated with the database in HeatWave. It has also many other features. MySQL is a far better solution in terms of pricing."
"I experienced poor input/output (IO) performance."
"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."
"It would be helpful to have IBM salespeople know that Informix exists, and sell it. Currently, it is completely ignored by IBM."
"The solution lacks some functionality."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"The solution really doesn't add new features very often."
"The support team could include local engineers to establish efficient communication. It will help us speed up the escalation process."
"I really would love to have a QT plugin."
"The GUI could improve to make MySQL better."
"It would be helpful if there were a graphical user interface to administer, configure, and tune it."
"We require more ease of use, scalability, and high availability. These are some of the critical features that we use and look for in a product. It should be easier to manage clusters. Scalability is very important for us because our projects and concurrency requirements are quite big. We also require high availability of the server, application, and other things. It should also have more performance-based features or enhancements from the performance point of view. When we divide a database, it should be able to handle the queries very fast."
"In the next release, I would like to see the scalability features improved to allow you to configure it and reduce the complexity with the configuration, making it easier for the end-user to scale. Make it as simple as it can be."
"While utilizing a comparable algorithm, is noted to be sensitive, especially when configuring the inner device."
"I did the implementation of the solution myself and I used community support. The support from the vendor costs money."
"MySQL is not easily scalable on cost effective consumer grade hardware."
"I would like to have the ability to cancel a query in SQL Developer."
IBM Informix is ranked 14th in Relational Databases Tools with 16 reviews while MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 142 reviews. IBM Informix is rated 8.6, while MySQL is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Informix writes "Quite stable and flexible but not very innovative". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". IBM Informix is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, IBM Db2 Database, MariaDB and Teradata, whereas MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Teradata and SQL Server. See our IBM Informix vs. MySQL report.
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