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Extending Informix®
Beyond standard relational database objects, HCL Informix® can be extended to handle specialized data types, access methods, routines, and other objects. Informix includes many built-in extensions that are fully integrated in the database server. Informix also provides DataBlade® modules, which are packages of extended database objects for a particular purpose and that are installed separately from the database server. Alternatively, you can create your own user-defined objects for Informix.
Informix® extensions and DataBlade® modules
These topics describe how to use built-in database extensions and separately installed DataBlade® modules.
TimeSeries Data User's Guide
The Informix® TimeSeries Data User's Guide contains information to assist you in using the TimeSeries extension with HCL Informix.
Time series Java™ class library
You can use the time series Java™ class library to create and manage a time series from within Java applications or applets.

HCL Informix® V14.10 documentation
Welcome to the documentation for HCL Informix® 14.10 and related client tools and products. The current fix pack level of Informix is 14.10.xC11.
Product overview
HCL Informix® is a fast and scalable database server that manages traditional relational, object-relational, and dimensional databases. Its small footprint and self-managing capabilities are suited to embedded data-management solutions.
Installing
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and DataBlade® modules.
Administering
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
Migrating and upgrading
You can upgrade to the 14.10 release of HCL Informix® or migrate from other database servers to Informix. Upgrading is an in-place migration method that uses your existing hardware and operating system software. Some changes to the Informix database server can affect upgrading from a previous release.
Client APIs and tools
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of client APIs to develop applications for Informix database servers.
Embedding Informix®
When you embed HCL Informix®, you can use enterprise-class high-availability and high performance with embeddability features such as easy programmability, a small disk and memory footprint, and silent deployment.
Extending Informix®
Beyond standard relational database objects, HCL Informix® can be extended to handle specialized data types, access methods, routines, and other objects. Informix includes many built-in extensions that are fully integrated in the database server. Informix also provides DataBlade® modules, which are packages of extended database objects for a particular purpose and that are installed separately from the database server. Alternatively, you can create your own user-defined objects for Informix.
- Informix® extensions and DataBlade® modules
  These topics describe how to use built-in database extensions and separately installed DataBlade® modules.
  - Database Extensions User's Guide
    The Informix® Database Extensions User's Guide explains how to use the database extensions that come with HCL Informix: Large Object Locator, MQ messaging, binary data types, basic text search, node data type, and SQL packages.
  - Performing XML Publishing
    The Informix® XML User's Guide includes information about using built-in functions for XML publishing with Informix.
  - Spatial Data User's Guide
    The contains information to assist you in using the Informix® spatial extension. The Informix spatial extension adds custom data types and supporting routines to the server.
  - TimeSeries Data User's Guide
    The Informix® TimeSeries Data User's Guide contains information to assist you in using the TimeSeries extension with HCL Informix.
    - Informix® TimeSeries solution
      Database administrators and applications developers use the Informix® TimeSeries solution to store and analyze time series data.
    - Data types and system tables
      Specialized data types and system tables handle time series data.
    - Create and manage a time series through SQL
      Before you can load time series data into the database, you must configure database objects specific to your time series. You can manage data storage and remove data as necessary. You can run SQL statements to create and manage time series.
    - Virtual tables for time series data
      A virtual table provides a relational view of your time series data.
    - Pattern matching searches
      You can search time series data for matches to a particular pattern of values. For example, after you identify a pattern of abnormal electricity usage that indicates an outage, you can search for matches to that pattern to find other outages. Pattern matching searches find matches to a pattern that you supply. Pattern matching searches do not discover patterns in time series data.
    - Advanced analytics
      Advanced analytics functions provide specialized methods of analyzing time series data for patterns or abnormalities.
    - Calendar pattern routines
      You can use calendar pattern routines to manipulate calendar patterns.
    - Calendar routines
      You can use calendar routines to manipulate calendars.
    - Time series SQL routines
    - Time series Java™ class library
      You can use the time series Java™ class library to create and manage a time series from within Java applications or applets.
      - Java™ class files and sample programs
        The time series Java™ class .jar file, Javadoc™, and sample programs are included with the database server.
      - Preparing the server for Java™ classes
        You must prepare the database server so that you can include the time series Java™ classes in your application by setting the CLASSPATH environment variable to the location of the Java class files.
      - Mapping time series data types
        To enable your Java™ program to retrieve or send a Calendar, CalendarPattern, orTimeSeries data type to or from the HCL Informix® database, you must create a custom type map.
      - Querying time series data with the IfmxTimeSeries object
        You can use a SELECT statement your Java™ program to retrieve TimeSeries data with the IfmxTimeSeries object.
      - Write TimeSeries data back to the database
      - Obtaining the time series Java™ class version
        If requested by Informix® Software Support, you can obtain the version stamp for the time series Java™ classes.
    - Time series API routines
      The time series application programming interface routines allow application programmers to directly access a time series datum.
    - Appendixes
  - Spatiotemporal Search for Moving Objects User's Guide
    The describes how to program applications to search data from moving objects in HCL Informix® databases using the spatiotemporal search extension.
- Creating extensions
  You can create user-defined data types, routines, access methods, and other database objects to suit your needs. You can use application programming interfaces to write user-defined routines and applications that access data in Informix® databases.
Data warehousing
In addition to designing and implementing Informix® dimensional databases, you can use tools to create data warehouse applications and optimize your data warehouse queries.
Designing databases
The first step in creating a relational database is to construct a data model, which is a precise, complete definition of the data you want to store. After you prepare your data model, you must implement it as a database and tables. To implement your data model, you first select a data type for each column and then you create a database and tables and populate the tables with data. You can also implement fragmentation strategies and control access to your data.
JSON compatibility
You can use the popular JSON-oriented query language created by MongoDB to interact with data stored in HCL Informix®.
Security
You can secure your Informix® database server and the data that is stored in your Informix databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
SQL programming
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of the SQL language to develop applications for Informix database servers.
Troubleshooting HCL Informix®
Several troubleshooting techniques, tools, and resources are available for resolving problems that you encounter in your HCL Informix® database server environment.
Informix PDF guides

Time series Java™ class library

You can use the time series Java™ class library to create and manage a time series from within Java™ applications or applets.

The time series Java™ class library uses the JDBC 2.0 specification for supporting user-defined data types in Java™.

When you write a Java™ application for time series data, you use the Informix® JDBC Driver to connect to the Informix® database, as shown in the following figure. See your Informix® JDBC Driver Programmer's Guide for information about how to set up your Java™ programs to connect to Informix® databases.

The figure is described in the surrounding text. — Figure 1. Runtime architecture for Java™ programs that connect to a database

The Java™ application makes calls to the JDBC driver, which sends queries and other SQL statements to the Informix® database. The database sends query results to the JDBC driver, which sends them on to the Java™ application.

You can also use the time series Java™ classes in Java™ applets and servlets, as shown in the following figures.

The figure is described in the surrounding text. — Figure 2. Runtime architecture for a Java™ applet

The database server is connected to the JDBC driver, which is connected to the applet. The applet is also connected to a browser, which is connected to a web server that communicates with the database.

The figure is described in the surrounding text. — Figure 3. Runtime architecture for a Java™ servlet

A request from an application goes through a web server, an HTTP servlet subclass, and the JDBC driver to the database. The database sends responses back along the same path.

Summary of time series classes

The Java™ class library contains classes that you use to complete all necessary tasks for creating and managing time series. You can create time series objects with the Builder classes that are provided for each class. The following table lists the Java™ class that you need for each of the tasks in creating and managing a time series.

Table 1. Time series tasks and the corresponding Java™ classes
Tasks	Java™ classes
Create, query, and manage a custom type map for time series data types	`TimeSeriesTypeMap` `TimeSeriesTypeMap.Builder`
Create, query, and manage calendar patterns	`IfmxCalendarPattern` `IfmxCalendarPattern.Builder`
Create, query, and manage calendars	`IfmxCalendar` `IfmxCalendar.Builder`
Create, query, and manage containers	`TimeSeriesContainer` `TimeSeriesContainer.Builder`
Create, query, and manage TimeSeries row types	`TimeSeriesRowType` `TimeSeriesRowType.Builder`
Instantiate time series	`IfmxTimeSeries` `IfmxTimeSeries.Builder`
Query, insert, update, or delete time series data	`IfmxTimeSeries`