Audience

Organizations running high-volume, mission-critical systems that need a reliable, low-maintenance database capable of handling real-time transactions across edge, cloud, and hybrid environments

About HCL Informix

HCL Informix is a high-performance, multi-model database management system designed to support mission-critical applications across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and edge environments. It manages relational, object-relational, and dimensional data while natively integrating multiple data types such as SQL, NoSQL, JSON, time series, and spatial data within a single engine, enabling flexible data architectures without requiring separate systems. It is built for extreme transactional workloads, capable of processing millions of transactions per second with full consistency and concurrency, making it suitable for large-scale, real-time operations. It delivers enterprise-grade availability through features like clustering, replication, and always-on failover, ensuring continuous uptime for critical systems. Informix has a lightweight footprint, requiring minimal memory and administration, which allows it to be embedded in devices or deployed at the edge for IoT.

Other Popular Alternatives & Related Software
IBM Informix on Cloud
IBM Informix on Cloud
Offers the complete feature set of Informix on-premises deployments with less cost, complexity and risk than managing your own infrastructure. The IBM® Informix® on Cloud offering provides an Informix database on IBM Cloud®. It offers customers the rich features of an on-premises Informix deployment while helping reduce the cost, complexity and risk of managing your own infrastructure. Informix on Cloud brings you a high-performance engine that integrates time series, spatial, NoSQL and SQL data together with easy access through MQTT, REST and MongoDB APIs. Accelerate and simplify your cloud deployments with Informix on Cloud and take advantage of the high-performance Informix engine that integrates time series, spatial, NoSQL and SQL data. Help reduce the cost and complexity of infrastructure maintenance using flexible hosting and software licensing options. Choose the size that meets your business needs, with always-on support.
Learn more
IBM Informix
IBM Informix
IBM Informix® is a fast and flexible database with the ability to seamlessly integrate SQL, NoSQL/JSON, and time series and spatial data. Its versatility and ease of use make Informix a preferred solution for a wide range of environments, from enterprise data warehouses to individual application development. Also, with its small footprint and self-managing capabilities, Informix is well suited for embedded data-management solutions. IoT data demands robust processing and integration capabilities. Informix offers a hybrid database system with minimal administrative requirements and memory footprint combined with powerful functionality. Key features make Informix ideal for multi-tiered architectures that require processing at the device level, at gateway layers and in the cloud. Native encryption to protect data at rest and in motion. Support for flexible schema, multiple APIs and configurations.
Learn more
RavenDB
RavenDB
RavenDB is the pioneer NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID) across your database and throughout your cluster. At a fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO), our open source distributed database offers high availability and high performance with zero administration. It is designed as an easy to use all-in-one database which minimizes the need for third party addons, tools, or support to boost developer productivity and get your project into production fast. You can setup and secure a data cluster in minutes and deploy in the cloud, on-premise or in a hybrid environment. RavenDB offers a Database as a Service solution, allowing you to pass on all your database operations to us so you can focus exclusively on your application. RavenDB has a built-in storage engine, Voron, that operates at speeds up to 1 million reads per second and 150,000 writes per second on a single node using simple commodity hardware to increase your application’s performance.
Learn more
WinSQL
WinSQL
WinSQL is a powerful universal database management tool that is used by 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies and more than a million programmers and DBAs around the globe. WinSQL is a generic querying tool that connects to any relational database (RDBMS) for which an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver is available, virtually all RDBMS on the market today. Connect to a variety of databases, including: heavy duty vendors Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix to lightweight backends like MS Access, DBase, and Text File. Generate royalty-free executables that can be used by your business users to run queries. These can be either static or dynamic queries that pull fresh data from the back-end. Export or simply open any query results into MS Excel with just a click of your mouse. You can even import an existing Excel spreadsheet to a database table by simply dragging an *.XSL file in the catalog tree.
Learn more

Pricing

Free Trial:
Free Trial available.

Integrations

See Integrations

Ratings/Reviews

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review:

Review this Software

Company Information

HCLSoftware
Founded: 1991
India
www.hcl-software.com/actian/informix

Videos and Screen Captures

HCL Informix Screenshot 1
HCL Informix Screenshot 1
Other Useful Business Software
One Subscription for Email, Storage, Meetings, and AI Icon
One Subscription for Email, Storage, Meetings, and AI

Gmail, Drive, Meet, Docs, Sheets, and Gemini in a single integrated suite.

Get a custom business email at your domain, up to 5TB of pooled storage per user, video meetings with recording and noise cancellation, eSignature in Docs, and appointment booking through Calendar. Real-time collaboration across every device, with enterprise-grade security built in.
Learn More

Product Details

Platforms Supported
Cloud
On-Premises
Training
Documentation
Live Online
Webinars
Videos
Support
Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

HCL Informix Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What kinds of users and organization types does HCL Informix work with?
Q: What languages does HCL Informix support in their product?
Q: What kind of support options does HCL Informix offer?
Q: What other applications or services does HCL Informix integrate with?
Q: What type of training does HCL Informix provide?
Q: Does HCL Informix offer a free trial?

HCL Informix Product Features

Database

Monitoring
Creation / Development
Data Migration
Data Search
Data Replication
Performance Analysis
Virtualization
Queries
Relational Interface
Backup and Recovery
Database Conversion
Mobile Access
NOSQL
Data Security