* Linear and modular scalability. * Strictly consistent reads and writes. * Automatic and configurable sharding of tables * Automatic failover support between RegionServers. * Convenient base classes for backing Hadoop MapReduce jobs with Apache HBase tables. * Easy to use Java API for client access. * Block cache and Bloom Filters for real-time queries. * Query predicate push down via server side Filters * Thrift gateway and a REST-ful Web service that supports XML, Protobuf, and binary data encoding options * Extensible jruby-based (JIRB) shell * Support for exporting metrics via the Hadoop metrics subsystem to files or Ganglia; or via JMX

* Bring NoSQL to your SQL database - IBM Informix unleashes new capabilities, giving you a way to combine unstructured and structured data in a smart way. IBM Informix offers a “hybrid” database system that is capable of supporting relational and non-relational data, giving you the ability to store JSON and relational tables in the same storage engine. * Meet the Big Data challenges of sensor data - Informix, with its TimeSeries feature, helps organizations solve the Big Data challenge of sensor data by providing unprecedented performance and scalability to applications that leverage time series data. * Speed and efficiency let you do more and spend less - Informix is fast. Informix was built from the ground up for performance. Higher performance means fewer servers – and less space, power, and cooling resources. * Options, not hassles, for achieving continuous availability - IBM Informix offers the industry's most comprehensive set of high availability options that can take advantage of low-cost hardware with Informix Flexible Grid. * Easy administration lets you maximize DBA resources - Informix software automatically senses and responds to changes without human or programmatic intervention. * Reduce cost and risk of private cloud and distributed enterprise deployments - Helping to reduce the cost and risk of private cloud, Informix 12.1 is the only database that allows different hardware and operating systems from cluster to cluster in a distributed environment. * Enhanced security speeds time to compliance - Organizations will have greater control over auditing practices with selective row level auditing.