User Reviews of IBM Informix & MySQL

Updated March 2024

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IBM Informix review

Petr Kavka
Petr Kavka
ING ( technical developer) at Centrum
A robust database system with strong concurrency and scalability, ideal for...
I am mostly an Informix programmer, so it was easy for me. The deployment took one to two hours. This is some development addition, so deploying it on a real Informix server would take more time. But nothing extremely long. I did the deployment myself. This server runs on Linux. As for the steps of deployment, You need to download...
MySQL review

Patryk Golabek
Patryk Golabek
CTO at Translucent Computing Inc
Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups
As for what can be improved, right now we don't use the MySQL cluster. There is a MySQL cluster that you can run in a standalone mode, like a single database or you can do it in a cluster master-slave implementation. The cluster is not the best when it comes to MySQL. That's why we switched to MariaDB. For that simple reason that the...

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