Welcome
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.
Spatiotemporal Search for Moving Objects User's Guide
These topics describe how to program applications to search data from moving objects in HCL Informix® databases using the spatiotemporal search extension.
What's new in Spatiotemporal searching for Informix®, Version 14.10
This publication includes information about new features and changes in existing functions.

HCL Informix® V15.0 documentation
Welcome to the documentation for HCL Informix® 15.0 and related client tools and products.
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 15.0 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.
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
    This publication 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
    This publication includes information about using built-in functions for XML publishing with HCL® Informix®.
  - Spatial Data User's Guide
    These topics contain information to assist you in using the HCL® Informix® spatial extension. The HCL Informix spatial extension adds custom data types and supporting routines to the server.
  - TimeSeries Data User's Guide
    These topics contain information to assist you in using the TimeSeries extension with HCL Informix®.
  - Spatiotemporal Search for Moving Objects User's Guide
    These topics describe how to program applications to search data from moving objects in HCL Informix® databases using the spatiotemporal search extension.
    - What's new in Spatiotemporal searching for Informix®, Version 14.10
      This publication includes information about new features and changes in existing functions.
    - Getting started with spatiotemporal search for moving objects
      You use spatiotemporal searches to track moving objects. You create a spatiotemporal search index on the time-stamped GPS data that is stored in a historian database as time series.
    - Spatiotemporal search tables
      The spatiotemporal search tables contain spatiotemporal data and information about spatiotemporal search indexes.
    - Spatiotemporal search routines
- 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.

What's new in Spatiotemporal searching for Informix®, Version 14.10

This publication includes information about new features and changes in existing functions.

For a complete list of what's new in this release, go to http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_12.1.0/com.ibm.po.doc/new_features_ce.htm What's new in Informix®What's new in Informix®.

Table 1. What's New in IBM® Informix® Spatiotemporal Search for Moving Objects User's Guide for 14.10.xC1
Overview	Reference
Support for geodetic spatial referencing systems and projected referencing systems other than WGS 84	Spatiotemporal indexing parameters
Count the number of time a moving object has passed a location	Spatiotemporal search routines