IBM Informix is a product family within IBM's Information Management division that is centered on several relational database management system offerings. The Informix products originated as offerings the Informix Software company, which was acquired by IBM in 2001. IBM has continued active development and marketing of the key Informix products, the current version of which 11.7 forms the basis of several product editions with variation in capacity and functionality. The Informix database has been used in many high transaction rate OLTP applications in the retail, finance, energy and... utilities, manufacturing and transportation sectors. More recently the server has been enhanced to support data warehouse workloads. The Informix server supports the object-relational model, which has permitted IBM to offer extensions that support data types that are not a part of the SQL standard. The most widely used of these are the time series and spatial extensions, which provide both data type support and language extensions that permit high performance domain specific queries and efficient storage for datasets based around time series and spatial data.
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