* Flexible Storage (In-Memory or On-Disk) - eXtremeDB Financial Edition is based on a core in-memory database system (IMDS) design that eliminates performance-draining I/O, cache management and data transfer. * Embedded or Client/Server Database Architecture - eXtremeDB Financial Edition provides the choice of configuring the database system in either embedded (DBMS runs entirely within the application process) or client/server designs, to support tiered application processing and performance optimization. * Short Execution Path - eXtremeDB Financial Edition’s code path is very short: a “footprint” of approximately 150K for the core database system points to McObject’s unrelenting focus on eliminating even small sources of latency. * Columnar Layout for Time Series Data - Traditional DBMSs bring rows of data into the CPU cache for processing. But financial data – such as trades and quotes – is naturally columnar, and handled more efficiently by a column-based layout. * High Availability - eXtremeDB Financial Edition’s high availability option ensures continuous database operation even in the face of hardware or software failure. * Clustering - eXtremeDB Financial Edition’s clustering capability can dramatically increase available net processing power, lower system expansion costs (by enabling use of low-cost “commodity” servers), and maximize scalability and reliability. And a lot more…

* 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.