We performed a comparison between CockroachDB and IBM Informix 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."The best feature of CockroachDB is the ability to keep the nodes in different locations."
"The product has valuable security features."
"I use CockroachDB to test big data samples and to create the best structure for databases. We have four users and required 10 people for deployment and maintenance."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities."
"CockroachDB is highly reliable."
"The initial setup and deployment are simple."
"The tool's most valuable feature is node syncing, which takes only 0.54 milliseconds."
"The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported."
"The solution's stability, performance, enhanced functionality, and replication are all great features."
"It supports in-house-built applications in .NET and VB6"
"The scalability is very good."
"The stability is incredible. I have customers with uptimes of several years."
"It supports multiple applications and business intelligence tools."
"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."
"CockroachDB needs to improve store processes."
"The platform could be more extensible."
"The initial setup and pricing could be improved."
"Cockroach does not support all types of protocols. I need to improve it myself to support a CouchDB on my network."
"The product must improve its disaster recovery features."
"The closer they can make CockroachDB to being completely compatible with Postgres, the better. It's almost compatible, but not completely. If it was, it would be nice to just be able to use Postgres libraries without any fiddling."
"I find the serverless offer a bit confusing."
"We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning."
"This product could be made easier to use for beginners."
"I would like to see backups from secondary servers."
"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 pricing is a bit expensive."
"I experienced poor input/output (IO) performance."
"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."
"There should be more intelligence surrounding discovering data to be able to automatically create indexes."
CockroachDB is ranked 9th in Relational Databases Tools with 10 reviews while IBM Informix is ranked 14th in Relational Databases Tools with 16 reviews. CockroachDB is rated 8.0, while IBM Informix is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of CockroachDB writes "Open source with extensive documentation and a University for training". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Informix writes "Quite stable and flexible but not very innovative". CockroachDB is most compared with Oracle Database, MySQL, Citus Data, Amazon Aurora and SQL Server, whereas IBM Informix is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, IBM Db2 Database, MySQL and MariaDB. See our CockroachDB vs. IBM Informix report.
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