* Two integrated clusters to refine and deliver large quantities of structured and unstructured data. * ECL, an easy-to-learn consistent programming language, designed specifically for big data processing. * A standard-based web interface to query data. * Runs on commodity hardware * Built-in distributed file system * Scales out to thousands of nodes * Fault resilient * Powerful development IDE * Extension modules for specific big data tasks like machine learning or web log analytics * Comprehensive operational tools * Extension modules are available for web log analytics, natural language parsing, machine learning, data encryption, and more. * Tools for environment configuration, job monitoring, and system performance management, distributed file system management, and 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.