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."
"IBM Informix benefits users with high availability and good integration capabilities."
"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."
"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."
"Every version is faster than the previous."
"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."
"Their extensive experience in data warehousing, the platform's performance, and their strong reputation in the market are the most valuable."
"It effectively has allowed us to remove over 20 portion copies of the data sets on other DB platforms for real-time operational reporting purposes."
"Teradata has good performance, the response times are very fast. Overall the solution is easy to use. When we do the transformation, we have all of our staging and aggregation data available."
"The performance is great, we are able to query our data in one operation."
"We really enjoy the FastLoad, TPump, and MultiLoad features."
"It has a solid set of tools and consulting services."
"A conventional and easily defined way to build a data warehouse or a layer of data marts."
"Designing the database is easy."
"The solution lacks some functionality."
"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 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."
"It would be helpful to have IBM salespeople know that Informix exists, and sell it. Currently, it is completely ignored by IBM."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"This solution is in need of more current tools."
"The solution really doesn't add new features very often."
"Teradata should focus on functionality for building predictive models because, in that regard, it can definitely improve."
"I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web."
"It's primarily designed for big projects and therefore, the pricing is pretty high. It's not suitable for smaller companies."
"Needs compatibility with more Big Data platforms."
"Data synchronization to the DR site."
"The SQL Assistant is very basic. This tool can be improved for usability."
"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 scalability could be better. The on-premises solution is always more complicated to scale."
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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