Informix For-Purchase Editions
IBM Informix Choice Edition for Windows and Mac OS X
Informix Choice Edition for Windows and Mac OS X is perfect for small to
mid-sized companies or departmental servers in an enterprise deployment. These
editions can be deployed on up to 8 cores over a maximum of 2 sockets and 8GB of
RAM operating from the same Install. Informix Choice Editions for Windows and
Mac can be licensed by Authorized User Single Install or Limited Use Socket (LU
Socket) metrics. LU Socket enables licensing by physical processor socket. You
may purchase licenses for up to two physical sockets and use up to 8 processor
cores.
IBM Informix Growth Edition
Available on Linux and Unix operating systems only, this edition has similar functionality and scalability restrictions as the Ultimate-C editions. The Informix Growth Edition is perfect for mid-sized companies or departmental servers in an enterprise deployment. This edition can be deployed on up to 16 cores over a maximum of 4 sockets and 16GB of RAM operating from the same install. Informix Growth Edition can be licensed by Authorized User Single Install, Concurrent Session, Processor Value Unit (PVU), and Limited Use Socket (LU Socket) metrics. LU Socket enables licensing by physical processor socket. LU Socket licensing is limited to physical servers with no more than four physical processor sockets. You may purchase licenses for up to four physical sockets and use up to 16 processor cores. You are not allowed to create a physical or logical partition of up to four processor sockets on a larger server and purchase a LU socket license.
Informix Growth Edition gives you additional database functionality including unlimited ER nodes. From a licensing perspective, since ER nodes are stand-alone, each ER node must be fully licensed. Informix Growth edition supports up to two (2) H/A cluster secondary nodes of any type. As long as the secondary node(s) are only functioning as a backup secondary, they can be deployed without charge. However, if you use any secondary node for SQL operations (read or write), the secondary node must be fully licensed.
IBM Informix Ultimate Edition
Includes all Informix features and functionality (except those specifically listed as optional add-ons) with unlimited scalability required for the highest OLTP and warehousing performance and full functionality.
Available on all supported platforms, this edition can be licensed by Processor Value Unit (PVU), Concurrent Session or Authorized User Single Install metrics. With this edition, full H/A cluster and ER functionality is available including unlimited ER nodes and all H/A cluster secondary instance types. From a licensing perspective, since ER nodes are stand-alone, each ER node must be fully licensed but H/A secondary nodes can be deployed without charge if they are only functioning as a backup secondary. If you use any secondary node for SQL operations (read or write), the secondary node must be fully licensed. Since almost all features and functionality are included with this edition, there are only a few optional add-ons. They include the Geodetic and Excalibur DataBlade Modules and the Storage Optimization Feature released with Informix 11.50.xC4. The Storage Optimization Feature provides data compression to help you reduce your data storage and backup/recovery costs and administration as well as providing improved performance. The Storage Optimization Feature is available as an option and may be purchased separately.
Informix Ultimate Edition provides enhanced capabilities over Informix Growth Edition, including capabilities required to run enterprise-level business applications.
Compare Editions
For a side by side comparison of all the new Informix editions visit the IBM web
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