In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
The HCL® Informix® Backup and Restore Guide describes how to use the HCL Informix and ontape utilities to back up and restore database server data. These utilities enable you to recover your databases after data is lost or becomes corrupted due to hardware or software failure or accident.
These topics provide an overview of backup and restore concepts. They also provide information about planning for backup and restore operations.
These topics describe the planning for backup and restore, for example by planning your recovery strategy and backup system.
Before you use or ontape, plan your recovery goals.
Welcome to the documentation for HCL Informix® 15.0.0 and related client tools and products.
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.
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and modules.
These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
HCL Informix® provides two utilities for backing up and restoring database server data. Both utilities back up and restore storage spaces and logical logs. However, they support different features and it is important to know the differences. These topics explain basic backup and restore concepts for HCL® Informix database servers and compares the and ontape utilities.
The first step in planning a recovery strategy is to determine how much data loss, if any, is acceptable.
After you determine your recovery goals, create your recovery plan. The plan should include recovery goals for multiple levels of failure.
After you develop your recovery plan, create a backup plan based on how you use your data.
You recovery strategy should include a schedule of backups. Tailor your backup plan to the requirements of your system. The more often the data changes and the more important it is, the more frequently you need to back it up.
For label-based access control (LBAC), the person who runs or ontape does not require an exemption to security policies or an additional privilege to back up or restore data.
To plan for adequate backup protection for your data, analyze your database server configuration and activity and the types of backup media available at your installation.
These topics provide information about Integrated Backup Encryption.
HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager is an application that manages storage devices used for backup and restore requests that are issued by . This storage manager supports both serial and parallel processing for backup and restore requests.
These topics provide information about storing and retrieving the backups directly to the ecosystem of selected cloud providers, namely Amazon S3 and Softlayer Object Storage.
The describes the concepts of data replication using HCL Informix® Enterprise Replication, including how to design your replication system, as well as administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.
You can upgrade to the 15.0.0 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.
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of client APIs to develop applications for Informix database servers.
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.
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 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.
In addition to designing and implementing Informix® dimensional databases, you can use tools to create data warehouse applications and optimize your data warehouse queries.
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.
You can use the popular JSON-oriented query language created by MongoDB to interact with data stored in HCL Informix®.
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.
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of the SQL language to develop applications for Informix database servers.
Several troubleshooting techniques, tools, and resources are available for resolving problems that you encounter in your HCL Informix® database server environment.
