The Informix time series analytics extension to store

The IBM Informix TimeSeries solution improves database functionality by extending support to store, manipulate, and access time series data.
It gives you the freedom to manage time series data by choosing the time series interval and letting you specify where time series is stored.

The IBM Informix TimeSeries solution

It gives you the freedom to manage time series data by choosing the time series interval and letting you specify where time series is stored.

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Key industries like utilities, manufacturing and logistics have IoT environments where remote devices are continually capturing metrics. This relentless stream of events or time series data have a high potential for analytical purposes.

Informix TimeSeries delivers multi-model capabilities, combining timeseries, JSON, Geospatial, Relational and Others. Moreover it has the power to process this huge amount of data and extract real value. Time series data is a set of data where each item is time-stamped and accessed in order by time. The series can be processed and analyzed in a temporal order.

Some unique capabilities of Informix TimeSeries are:

Key strengths

The Informix TimeSeries solution include the following.

Less storage

Up to 80% less storage compared to traditional relation approach.

Performance Improvement

Performance improvement in orders of magnitude compared to traditional relational approach for handling temporal data.

Less Development Cost

Reduced application development cost with built-in routines & ease of administration through Open Admin tool.

Less storage

80%

Performance improvement

95%

Less development cost

60%

Creating & loading.

The steps for creating and loading a Informix TimeSeries involves working with the following components:

  • Calendar
  • Calendar pattern
  • TimeSeries column
  • TimeSeries container
  • Create a TimeSeries
  • Load the data