* ACID Transactions - Concourse supports cross-record transactions that are fully ACID compliant: all operations succeed or fail together; writes are visible to all readers only after being successfully committed; serializable isolation is used to prevent dirty reads, non-repeatable reads and phantom reads; and committed transactions are immediately stored to disk so they persist in the event of power loss, crash or error * Version Control - Concourse automatically and efficiently tracks revisions to your data. * Automatic Indexing - Concourse automatically indexes everything in both logical and sorted order–using a buffered storage system to ensure that writes are fast–so you can quickly fetch and query any key at any time. * Simple Data Model - The Concourse data model is lightweight and flexible–it supports any kind of data at very large scales. * Scalability and Fault Tolerance - Concourse can be distributed across many different servers on commodity hardware to increase read and write throughput. * Graph Queries - The people, places and things in your data are all connected. So Concourse allows you to model those relationships with enforced referential integrity and also provides a built-in interface to perform analytical graph queries.

* 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.