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."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 scalability is very good."
"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 solution's stability, performance, enhanced functionality, and replication are all great features."
"It supports in-house-built applications in .NET and VB6"
"The stability is incredible. I have customers with uptimes of several years."
"Replication is a valuable feature and easy to use."
"Replication, all levels of replication, query charting, and the MongoDB embedded are the most valuable features of this solution."
"This solution is user-friendly."
"I like the global transaction IDs (GTIDs) feature. It's quite reliable for replication between a master and a replica server, and it's a feature that MySQL also has but implemented differently."
"From the user's perspective, the performance of the columnar queries is very good in terms of the database when comparing it to the Oracle, and MySQL."
"I am editing."
"MariaDB has a straightforward initial setup with easy-to-understand documentation."
"The most valuable feature is that it uses multiple cores, which is better than some of the other databases."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is a cloud-based tool, so it is pretty fast."
"It is an absolutely stable solution."
"There should be more intelligence surrounding discovering data to be able to automatically create indexes."
"This solution is in need of more current tools."
"The support team could include local engineers to establish efficient communication. It will help us speed up the escalation process."
"The solution lacks some functionality."
"The technical support services need substantial improvement."
"I really would love to have a QT plugin."
"I experienced poor input/output (IO) performance."
"It would be helpful to have IBM salespeople know that Informix exists, and sell it. Currently, it is completely ignored by IBM."
"It does not have tools for debugging procedures and functions."
"Document caching is an area of concern in the product, where improvements are required to help MariaDB improve on the previous queries as they are retained, and you can roll back to them."
"It doesn't have the same level of maturity metrics as Postgres."
"I'd like to see improved materialized views, like the ability to save select queries. This feature is missing in MariaDB compared to other relational databases like Oracle and SQL Server."
"The price could be less expensive."
"MariaDB could improve by adding support for non-relational structures and new data types."
"The solution should do some fine-tuning on maybe the transaction per second so that users can get more than they can on the Microsoft SQL Server."
"It would be good if they can maybe improve the mass import in the database. Currently, for importing a large number of data, we create a CSV file and upload all the things in the system. The system does not activate them by default. We have to do this manually. This may be due to the version we are using, but this is something we would like to see improved."
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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