We performed a comparison between IBM Informix and MariaDB 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."
"So far, we do not have a lot of issues. It's pretty problem-free."
"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."
"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."
"The scalability is very good."
"The stability is incredible. I have customers with uptimes of several years."
"Every version is faster than the previous."
"It is a scalable solution. It easily scales up and scales down."
"The product has good documentation and you can find many examples online."
"We use MariaDB for identity provider services. Most of the things that we are doing are deployed in the container mode. All such solutions require a database, and MariaDB is easier to use for these kinds of deployments."
"The stability of MariaDB is good, it has high availability."
"There is the need for a robust IDE for MongoDB. The existing PHP admin console doesn't meet the client's requirements effectively."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is an open-source product and offers its users great online community support."
"MariaDB is a user-friendly solution. Performance wise, it's better than SQL. With SQL, I would need to write a number of queries. In contrast, MariaDB is light."
"MariaDB is scalable."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"The support team could include local engineers to establish efficient communication. It will help us speed up the escalation process."
"The technical support services need substantial improvement."
"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."
"There should be more intelligence surrounding discovering data to be able to automatically create indexes."
"The solution lacks some functionality."
"This solution is in need of more current tools."
"The customer service and support are okay. But the response time is slow. Moreover, the material is not available freely."
"It does not have tools for debugging procedures and functions."
"It's not very stable. It needs improvement."
"An improvement would be scaling it up to the levels of Oracle, especially when it comes to resilience, so that we can do higher transactions for two databases or power our operation."
"The stability could always continue to be improved upon."
"Maria DB has to improve from a management perspective."
"Master-master replication is something that needs to be simplified."
"The PL/SQL performance is slow if you have big batch jobs running overnight."
IBM Informix is ranked 14th in Relational Databases Tools with 16 reviews while MariaDB is ranked 5th in Relational Databases Tools with 51 reviews. IBM Informix is rated 8.6, while MariaDB 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 MariaDB writes "Simultaneously use active server capabilities but lacks the maturity ". IBM Informix is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, IBM Db2 Database, MySQL and Teradata, whereas MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, Firebird SQL and SingleStore. See our IBM Informix vs. MariaDB report.
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