We performed a comparison between IBM Informix and Teradata 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."So far, we do not have a lot of issues. It's pretty problem-free."
"The stability is incredible. I have customers with uptimes of several years."
"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."
"It supports in-house-built applications in .NET and VB6"
"Every version is faster than the previous."
"It supports multiple applications and business intelligence tools."
"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."
"Replication is a valuable feature and easy to use."
"It has given our business the ability to gain insights into the data and create data labs for analysis and PoCs."
"I found all parts --loading, transformation, processing & querying work in parallel, and end-to-end-- to be valuable."
"I like this solution's ease of design and the fact that its performance is quite good. It is stable as well."
"The most valuable feature of Teradata is the quick processing of large data."
"The performance is great, we are able to query our data in one operation."
"The most valuable features of Teradata are that it is a massively parallel platform and I can receive a lot of data and get the queries out correctly, especially if it's been appropriately designed. The native features make it very suitable for multiple large data tasks in a structured data environment. Additionally, the automation is very good."
"Teradata solutions help organizations reduce IT, operations, and maintenance costs; enhance on-time delivery of products and services."
"Things have started moving faster in my company, such as data retrieval happens more quickly."
"I would like to see backups from secondary servers."
"Continue extending the SQL language for compatibility with the competition's language, including Stored Procedure Language."
"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."
"The solution lacks some functionality."
"There should be more intelligence surrounding discovering data to be able to automatically create indexes."
"The solution really doesn't add new features very often."
"I experienced poor input/output (IO) performance."
"Teradata is an old data warehouse, and they're not improving in terms of new, innovative features."
"Teradata is a bit late for the cloud."
"Sometimes the large injestion takes days to load data, and some of our stored procedures take two to three days."
"The solution is stable. However, there are times when we are using large amounts of data and we can see some latency issues."
"I've been using the same UI for 20 years in Teradata. It could use some updating. Adding more stability around Teradata Studio would be outstanding. Teradata Studio is a Java-based version of their tool. It's much better now, but it still has some room for improvement."
"The SQL Assistant is very basic. This tool can be improved for usability."
"Apart from Control-M, it would be nice if it could integrate with other tools."
"We tried to use case Teradata for a data warehouse system, but we had some problems in relation to the Teradata system, CDC tools, and source databases. We were unable to transfer data from HPE Integrity mainframe to Teradata."
IBM Informix is ranked 14th in Relational Databases Tools with 16 reviews while Teradata is ranked 7th in Relational Databases Tools with 54 reviews. IBM Informix is rated 8.6, while Teradata 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 Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". IBM Informix is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, IBM Db2 Database, MySQL and Oracle Database In-Memory, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, MySQL and BigQuery. See our IBM Informix vs. Teradata report.
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