We performed a comparison between IBM Informix and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service 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."It supports in-house-built applications in .NET and VB6"
"IBM Informix benefits users with high availability and good integration capabilities."
"Every version is faster than the previous."
"The scalability is very good."
"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."
"So far, we do not have a lot of issues. It's pretty problem-free."
"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 solution's stability, performance, enhanced functionality, and replication are all great features."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is flexible and is an open-source product."
"The scalability of the database is absolutely guaranteed by the new features."
"The most valuable feature is the data aggregation function."
"The product is good for tuning."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is data migration."
"The solution overall is very, very good. It's got good integration with other databases and adds new features often."
"The product is easy to learn."
"It's easy to use."
"It would be helpful to have IBM salespeople know that Informix exists, and sell it. Currently, it is completely ignored by IBM."
"The support team could include local engineers to establish efficient communication. It will help us speed up the escalation process."
"The solution really doesn't add new features very often."
"There should be more intelligence surrounding discovering data to be able to automatically create indexes."
"Continue extending the SQL language for compatibility with the competition's language, including Stored Procedure Language."
"This solution is in need of more current tools."
"I experienced poor input/output (IO) performance."
"I would like to see backups from secondary servers."
"The product has many bugs."
"They could include more advanced features like clustering and replication in the Oracle databases."
"The support is not that great. They're not really supporting directly anymore and relying on experts to figure out technical issues."
"Sometimes, we face syntax issues with the solution."
"The technical support is in need of improvement."
"The user interface is not simple."
"In a production environment, upgrading from a lower to an upper version is a very long process that needs to be improved."
"There could be more courses where the people could learn more easily how to use the tool."
IBM Informix is ranked 14th in Relational Databases Tools with 16 reviews while Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is ranked 11th in Relational Databases Tools with 15 reviews. IBM Informix is rated 8.6, while Oracle MySQL Cloud Service 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 Oracle MySQL Cloud Service writes "A stable solution that can be used to perform on-premises to cloud migrations". IBM Informix is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, IBM Db2 Database, MySQL and MariaDB, whereas Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is most compared with Amazon Aurora, MySQL, Firebird SQL, Percona Server and PostgreSQL. See our IBM Informix vs. Oracle MySQL Cloud Service report.
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