A database.
Yes.
Jonathan Leffler has written: 'Using INFORMIX-SQL' -- subject(s): Informix-SQL, Relational databases
Firstly Informix can do everything that Oracle can do and many things Oracle cant do, ( such as Time Series, Geodetic Functions, Hierarchical structures etc )so functionally its a much richer product. The real advantage is that it is much easier to set up ( particularly in a clustered environment) and once set up it requires almost no DBA resource to manage it. There are documented cases of Informix working untouched for decades ! Informix users call it " Set it and Forget it" Informix is also incredibly hardware efficient, so can often match an Oracle workload on 50% of the computing resource ( Saving hardware spend, software spend and energy spend ) Now this is great news for users, but bad news for DBAs and equally bad news for hardware manufacturers, no wonder Oracle DBAs always try to scupper any interest in Informix and IBM really dont like to publisise Informix much. Theres some interesting information at www.freeinformix.com
The IBM Informix is a database software that allows the user to schedule maintenance without any downtime. It optimizes the use of hardware reducing storage needs and operations can be consolidated in to one database platform.
Art Taylor has written: 'JDBC' -- subject(s): Database design, Relational databases, Java (Computer program language) 'Notes and tones' -- subject(s): Interviews, Jazz musicians, African American musicians 'INFORMIX-NewEra' -- subject(s): NewEra (Computer program language), Application software 'Informix power reference' -- subject(s): Informix software, Database management, Software 'J2EE and Beyond'
1) Interactive Unix System 2) Informix Universal Server
DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, My SQL, Informix and Sybase
ORACLE firp bird IBM DB2 Informix Interbase PostgreSQL MySQL Zope ADABAS Sybase SQLite SQL Server SAP DB
Ontape or Onbar back utilities. You can backup to a disk file or to a tape device.Onbar requires a storage manager like Tivoli or Netbackup.
The two major commercial classes of database are; relational and non-relational. Example of non-relational databases include Informix c-isam and dbisam. The main relational databases are; MS SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle, Progress, mySQL.
Available DBMS are DB2, Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQLServer. There are also Microsoft Access, mySQL, FileMaker. Hyperion, hSQL, Firebird, Postgres, and more.
Oracle, MS SQL Server, Informix, Sybase, DB2, MySQL And for "toy" applications, MS Access.