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."Replication is a valuable feature and easy to use."
"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."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"So far, we do not have a lot of issues. It's pretty problem-free."
"It supports in-house-built applications in .NET and VB6"
"IBM Informix benefits users with high availability and good integration capabilities."
"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."
"We use it for our on-premises solutions, virtual servers and SSAS, SSRS packages. Also, our applications are .NET based, so it made to use it."
"We have many users, between 50 and 100 using the SQL Server product."
"The installation was straightforward. We did not have a large installation and it took a couple of weeks to complete."
"It is one of the most stable relational databases out there."
"It's more user-friendly than most databases."
"I've been using SQL Server for 20 years, and there is nothing that it can't do. It is awesome."
"Comparing with other database management systems that I tried in other companies, SQL Server is quite easy to install, configure, and maintain."
"It's much more friendly in comparison with Oracle."
"This solution is in need of more current tools."
"I would like to see backups from secondary servers."
"The solution lacks some functionality."
"Continue extending the SQL language for compatibility with the competition's language, including Stored Procedure Language."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"There should be more intelligence surrounding discovering data to be able to automatically create indexes."
"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 agility of the non-SQL-based features is relevant on the market."
"It's difficult to make changes. It's a very complicated product in general — that's the issue."
"There are certain shortcomings in the scalability of the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would be great if we were able to run it on multiple operating systems and not only stick with Windows."
"The solution's stability can be improved."
"Improvements to the indexing, columnstore indexing, and high availability groups are good improvements for future versions."
"If you are a new user then this solution could be difficult, they could improve by making the overall usage easier."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
IBM Informix is ranked 14th 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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