1. What’s New in IBM Informix 12.1
Jerry Keesee, Director Informix
Development

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IBM Confidential
Informix 12.1 Strengthens Informix Key Differentiators
Warehouse Acceleration
• Operational analytics & in-memory query acceleration
Cloud
• Heterogeneous H/A clusters; On-demand scalability; Replication;
Hypervisor Edition and Pattern for PureSystems
Ease of Use and Productivity
• Graphical, mobile administration; Comprehensive compression;
Genero for accelerated application development
Smart meter and sensor data solutions
• Time series data management and analytics acceleration
Embedded data management
• Embeddability, SQL / OLAP Compatibility; Autonomics

6. Agenda
Why So Powerful – Sensor Data
Kevin Brown, Chief Architect
Why So Simple- Ease of Use and Admin
John Miller, Release Architect
Analytics/IWA/Trickle Feed/OAT and TS Integration
Keshava Murthy, Lead Architect SQL
The Power of the Grid
Madison Pruet, Lead Architect Availability
Questions/Wrap up

7. Why So Powerful – Sensor Data
Kevin Brown, Chief Architect

8. Informix Strategic Fit in IBM Big Data Landscape
InfoSphere BigInsights
Hadoop-based low latency
analytics for variety and
volume
IBM Netezza High
Capacity Appliance
Queryable Archive
Structured Data
IBM Netezza 1000
BI+Ad Hoc
Analytics on Structured DataIBM Smart Analytics
System
Operational Analytics on
Structured Data
IBM InfoSphere
Warehouse
Large volume structured
data analytics
InfoSphere Streams
Low Latency Analytics for
streaming data
Structured Database
Stream ComputingInformation
Integration
Hadoop
InfoSphere Information
Server
High volume data integration
and transformation
IBM Informix
TimeSeries Acceleration
Operational Analytics

9. Traditional Time Series Storage VS Informix TimeSeries
Storage
Traditional Table Approach
Informix Time Series Approach

10. • Highlights
– Acceleration of Time Series Analytics with IWA
– Significant performance improvements using virtual table views
– Automatically maintain a rolling window of TimeSeries data
– GUI for developing TimeSeries loader and applications
Sensor Data Theme
Big Data and the Adoption of TimeSeries

11. • Highlights
– Reducing logging for faster data upload
– Replicate TimeSeries data (ER support added)
– Lock time series containers for writing
– Infosphere Streams support for Informix and TimeSeries
– Load data into TimeSeries directly from another database (Informix
or other)
Sensor Data Theme
Big Data and the Adoption of TimeSeries

12. TimeSeries Related Presentations
• Tuesday 8:15 in Sierra 5
– A07. InfoSphere Streams and Informix - Jacques Roy
• Tuesday 2:15 in Sierra 5
– C11. How IBM Informix is Playing a Critical Role in IBM Research – Uli Finkler, Chen
Wang, Kevin Brown
• Wednesday 9:45 in Sierra 6
– B14. Informix 12.1 speeds up queries on TimeSeries data with IBM Informix
Warehouse Accelerator - - - Frederick Ho, Kevin Brown
• Wednesday 1:05 in Cabrillo Salon 1
– C16. What's new in IBM Informix TimeSeries in 12.1 - Jacques Roy
Stay tuned for future YouTube, Webcasts, and other promotional material!

13. Why So Simple- Ease of Use and
Admin
John Miller - Release Architect

14. Why So Simple?
• Ease of Use and Administration
– Automatic and Enhance Compression Story
– Increased SQL Compatibility
• Ease of Administration
– OpenAdmin Tool for Informix
• Core Tools improvements
• New Mobile Solution
– Increased limits
– Enhanced online configuration

15. Analytics/IWA/Trickle Feed/OAT
and TS Integration
Keshava Murthy - Lead Architect, SQL

16. Informix Warehousing Moving Forward
 Goal is to provide Informix Customers with a
comprehensive warehousing platform that is highly
competitive in the marketplace
 Incorporating the best features of XPS and Red Brick
into Informix for OLTP/Warehousing and Mixed-
Workload
 Using the latest Informix technology in:
 Continuous Availability and Flexible Grid
 Data Warehouse Accelerator using latest industry
technology
 Integration of IBM’s BI software stack

17. 19
Informix Warehouse
Feature
- SQW
- Data Modeling
- ELT/ETL
Informix Warehouse with
Storage
Optimization/Compression
Cognos integration
- Native Content Store on Informix
SQL Merge
Informix Warehouse: Roadmap
External Tables
Star Join Optimization
Multi-index Scan
New Fragmentation
Fragment Level Stats
Storage Provisioning
Warehouse
Accelerator
OLAP
Query
Rewrite
Hash Join
Enhance IWA
+++
11.5xC3
11.5xC6
11.70
11.70xC2
11.5xC4
11.5xC5
Informix 12.1 – Simply
Powerful

18. 20
IWA 1st
Release
On SMP
SMB: IGWE
Scale out: IWA
on Blade
Server
Workload Analysis Tool
More Locales
Data Currency
IWA: Roadmap
Partition Refresh
MACH11 support
Solaris on Intel
Automatic data refresh
Union queries
Derived tables
OAT Integration
SQL/OLAP for IWA
Timeseries Acceleration
11.7xC2
11.7xC5
12.1xC
1
11.7xC3
11.7xC4
2012 IIUG
2013 IIUG
TS Data Refresh
improvements;
Quicker to analysi
12.10.x
C2

19. Simplified usage
• Better performance
without schema changes
or explicit query rewrite.
• Easier to use
• Simplified query for
business reporting – OLAP
window functions
Simply Powerful Storage Options
• Improved storage
management
– Index Compression
– Rolling Window Table
– Temp table allocation
Powerful Analysis
• FASTRRRR Query processing
• Accelerating timeseries analytics
• Richer SQL support for IWA
Simplified usage
• Easier deployment & monitoring
• Data sychronization
• High availability support

20. Informix SQL features
IDS SQL features
• Better Cognos & BI Performance
• OLAP window functions
• Hash join improvements
• -- Costing
• -- ANSI join support
• Query Rewrite +++
• NULLS FIRST/LAST
• Multiple aggregates w/ Distincts
• Update statistics LOW with Sampling
• Null Friendly hash joins
IDS Kernel/storage features
• Index Compression
• Rolling Window Table
• Temp table allocation
IWA features – Query
• OLAP window support
• Timeseries Acceleration
• Multiple aggregates, NULLS
FIRST/LAST
• Supports UNION, UNION ALL
• Derived table support
IWA features – Infrastructure
• OAT Support for IWA
– Data mart operations
– Workload analysis
– Monitoring
• Automatic partition refresh
• Trickle feed
• Performance work with Intel
• MACH11 support for IWA
• Simplified stored procedures for
administration

21. •19 technical sessions on 12.1 warehouse releated
features
•https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/Keshav/resource/IIUG2013-1
•Informix-Congos-IWA demo (ongoing)
•Informix & IWA adiminstration from OAT
•Tuesday 1PM to 6PM @ Santa Fe 4
•IWA Bootcamp
•Thursday FREE

22. Applications
BI Tools
Step 1. Submit SQL
DB protocol: SQLI or DRDA
Network : TCP/IP,SHM
Informix
2. Query matching and
redirection technology
Step 3
offload SQL.
DRDA over TCP/IP
Step 4
Results:
DRDA over TCP/IP
Local
Execution
Coordinator
Compressed
data
In memory
Worker
Memory
image on disk
Compressed
data
In memory
Worker
Memory
image on disk
Compressed
data
In memory
Worker
Memory
image on disk
Compressed
data
In memory
Worker
Memory
image on disk
Step 6. Return results/describe/error
Database protocol: SQLI or DRDA
Network : TCP/IP, SHM
Query Flow
5. Feed results to
OLAP iterators if it
exists

23. Informix Publications
Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering: March 2012 Vol.
35 No. 1
Real Time Business Intelligence. September 2, 2011 - Seattle, United States
IBM Data management Magazine: Supercharging
the
data wharehouse while keeping the costs down.
2012 Bloor Report: IBM Informix in hybrid workload
environments
2012 Ovum Analyst report: Informix Accelerates Analytic Integration
into OLTP
DBTA Article: Empowering Business Analysts with Faster Insights
http://youtu.be/xJd8M-fbMI0

24. The Power of the Grid
Madison Pruet - Lead Architect
Availability

25. Key Replication Functionality
• Shard Query
– Allows an entire grid of
servers to be treated as
a single data source
• Timeseries Support with
Enterprise Replication

26. For Additional Information
• Monday 1:05 – 5:45
“Explore New Features in Grid and High
Availability” - Lab, Santa Fe 4
• Wednesday 9:45 – 10:45
“D14:Replication in 12.10 – The Flexible Grid”
• Wednesday 10:55-11:55
“D15:Replication in 12.10 – Clusters”

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What’s New in IBM Informix 12.1