HCL Informix® Now AI-ready
HCL Informix® 15 now includes VectorBlade: native vector search, semantic queries, and RAG pipelines, built into the database you already run.
Informix is a trademark of IBM Corporation in at least one jurisdiction and is used under license.
What is HCL Informix®?
HCL Informix® is the same Informix database you know and love, licensed by Actian, a division of HCLSoftware. HCL Informix has product parity with IBM® Informix® Advanced Enterprise Edition, including the popular 4GL and Informix SQL offerings. With a per-core licensing model, no cloud vendor lock-in, and native AI capabilities through VectorBlade, HCL Informix 15 is the fastest path from existing Informix deployment to production AI.
Introducing VectorBlade:
AI search, inside your database
VectorBlade is a native extension to HCL Informix 15.
- Store embeddings natively.
- Similarity search via SQL.
- RAG pipelines without the overhead.
Included at no additional cost for qualifying HCL Informix 15 customers.
Ship AI features faster
Your team queries vector data with standard SQL. No new APIs to learn, no new query language, no separate vector store to provision and maintain.
Keep your governance intact
Embeddings live inside HCL Informix. Same security controls, same audit trails, same compliance posture. External vector stores inherit none of that.
Avoid a $$$ infra project
Companies that consolidate on a single vector capable database avoid the cost of running and syncing a separate vector store alongside their primary DB.
Still running off-support IBM Informix?
Out-of-support databases create compounding risks across security, compliance, AI readiness, and more. Here’s what’s at stake.
Unpatched vulnerabilities cause 1 in 3 data breaches globally. Without an active support contract, your database stops receiving patches and threat updates, leaving an open door. A single incident can trigger ransomware, legal liability, downtime, and reputational damage.
HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR require current, patched, supported software with violations reaching €20M or 4% of annual turnover. Compliance doesn’t pause when support lapses. As data sovereignty frameworks expand across the EU, Japan, and China, the exposure gap only widens.
When your database can’t store vector embeddings natively, adding AI means moving sensitive data to external systems like Pinecone or Milvus, creating new compliance, residency, and audit vulnerabilities precisely when regulators are tightening cross-border data rules.
Semantic search, RAG, and AI recommendations require databases that store vector embeddings, run similarity searches, and unify structured and unstructured data in one governed system. Every quarter on an unsupported database is a quarter your team can’t build what customers expect.
Bolting AI onto unsupported infrastructure creates a patchwork of external vector stores and fragile sync pipelines on a database never designed for them. Data sprawls, consistency breaks down, and integration debt compounds, leaving teams troubleshooting instead of building.
Modern HCL Informix application use cases
Gaming
At peak times, always-on gaming services must process millions of transactions per second to respond to player actions across thousands of users. HCL Informix enhances the gaming experience by offering the capacity to process 2 million+ transactions per second with a half yottabyte of storage per instance–equivalent to four times the estimated size of the entire internet.
Retail
Large retailers must process customer transactions, manage supplier invoices, and place orders to ensure smooth operations across thousands of stores and online. HCL Informix simplifies this by automatically integrating various data types, enabling retailers to predict and plan demand. This allows them to order more supplies when demand increases and pivot to new products as consumer tastes evolve.
Quality management
Manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies must quickly and accurately assess whether their products meet quality standards and identify those that do not. HCL Informix automates quality management decisions by quickly interpreting SQL and NoSQL data–like photos, weight, and temperature–to determine if a product meets quality standards and remove outliers.
Supply chain management
Embrace the unpredictable with HCL Informix. Supply chains are constantly shifting due to changes in supply, demand, disease, and climate. Those who adapt, thrive. With a light-weight footprint for edge deployments and the ability to integrate SQL and NoSQL data, HCL Informix builds agility and resilience into supply chains by detecting the slightest changes in weather, supply, and demand.
Financial accounting
Maintaining accurate financial records for taxation and investor reporting is critical to efficient business operations. HCL Informix makes it easy to provide a reliable audit trail for financial transactions, seamlessly integrating SQL and NoSQL data types. If audited by tax authorities, it’s easy to share a consistent and time-bound record of transactions to back up your practice.
Core capabilities
AI-ready with VectorBlade
Store and query vector embeddings alongside structured data in a single database. Enable semantic search, RAG pipelines, and hybrid queries without a separate vector store.
Multi-model native
HCL Informix is a versatile, high–performance database that excels at integrating SQL, NoSQL, JSON, time series, and spatial data.
High-performance transactional processing
Processes 2 million+ transactions per second with full consistency, concurrency, and resource utilization to support hundreds of thousands of users.
Always-on availability, clustering, and replication
Enterprise-grade availability, active clustering, and cross-region replication for applications with remote secondary standby database servers and shared disk secondary servers to support mission-critical environments.
Effortless data management
Utilize “smart triggers” for event-driven processing and instant database push notifications without altering the schema. The InformixHQ dashboard streamlines database monitoring, management, and administrative tasks.
Simplified deployments
Flexible deployment options based on a per core pricing model enable easy setup at the edge, on-premises, or within your preferred cloud environment.
Secure your future with HCL Informix 15
Curious about HCL Informix but aren’t sure how it’s different from IBM Informix? Join us for this critical 45-minute webinar that highlights the differences between IBM Informix and HCL Informix, what’s new in HCL Informix 15, and how you can modernize your out-of-support IBM Informix applications with HCL Informix 15. Plus, we have a limited-time offer you won’t want to miss!
Highly flexible cloud deployment
Leverage a range of cloud deployment choices that align with your unique strategy, timeline, and budgetary considerations.
Public cloud
Recommended for businesses that need fast deployments, high reliability, and usage flexibility.
- Unleash data throughout your business or organization.
- Initiate analytics to enhance informed decision-making.
- Amplify value by embracing heightened agility and scalability.
Multi-cloud
Recommended for businesses that operate globally with distributed workloads requiring resilience.
- Select services from a range of public cloud providers.
- Distribute data and mitigate risks across multiple public cloud platforms.
- Decrease expenses by capitalizing on negotiations among competing providers.
Hybrid cloud
Recommended for businesses balancing real-time analytics with strict data privacy regulations.
- Safeguard on-premises data and infrastructure investments.
- Retain precise command over security and performance.
- Employ the optimal tool for each task, considering all factors.
Deploy on any cloud, at any scale
Scale with ease and make data easy to use, wherever it lives. Take advantage of Actian and Google Cloud’s strategic partnership.
Confidently get more value from your data and accelerate growth. Launch your journey to AWS with Actian.
Get the power and speed you need in the cloud, along with trusted results. Optimize Microsoft Azure with Actian.
Ready to Modernize?
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