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IBM Informix Features and Benefits

Features

Benefits

High-performance
technology

»	Cleaner indexes and improved memory management for more-efficient use of memory and processors

»	Enhanced buffer priority management for more-efficient use of large amounts of memory for today’s 64-bit operating systems

»	Smarter query optimization including user-defined type costing with new spatial data types

»	Shortened instruction sets for common tasks

»	Reduced contention between concurrent users

Scalability

Previous limitations are eliminated in IDS 9.40:

»	Data capacity of a single instance increased from 4 TB to 128 PB

»	Maximum chunk size increased from 2 GB to 4 TB

»	Maximum number of chunks increased from 2,048 to 32 K

»	Maximum LVARCHAR size increased from 2 KB to 32 KB

»	DBMS utility file size limit increased from 2 GB to 17 billion GB

Security

»	Secure over-the-wire encryption using the industry-standard OpenSSL encryption libraries

»	Configurable user authentication mechanisms using Pluggable Authentication Modules

System management

»	Informix Storage Manager support in the browser-based ISA

»	Automated backup and restore functions

»	Increased media efficiency by tape-handling utilities

»	More flexible restore options

Application development

»	SQL language enhancements

»	Expanded Unicode support

»	Multiple collation support

»	Silent installation

»	Continued support of IBM Informix 4GL, SQL, ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, SQLJ

»	.NET Driver

Available on

IBM AIX®

»	Compaq Tru64

»	HP-UX, HP-UX Itanium

»	Linux on Intel® processor-compatible servers, Linux for IBM eserver® zSeries® servers, Linux Itanium

»	Microsoft Windows® 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2003 64-bit Itanium, Windows XP

»	Reliant UNIX

SGI IRIX

»	Sun Solaris

»	IBM Unidata

»	IBM UniVerse

»	IBM SystemBuilder

»	IBM Informix

Products

Features and Benefits

Evolution of IDS

IDS 9.40 - Supported Platforms

»	Raining Data

»	SQL Server