Informix TimeSeries solution architecture

The Informix® TimeSeries solution consists of built-in data types and routines. You can use other Informix tools to administer and load time series data.

The Informix database server includes the following functionality for managing time series data:

• The TimeSeries data type and other related data types to configure the data.
• TimeSeries SQL routines to run queries on time series data.
• TimeSeries API routines and Java™ classes to use in your applications to manipulate and analyze time series data.

You can use IBM® Data Studio or IBM Optim™ Development Studio along with the HCL Informix TimeSeries Plug-in for Data Studio to load data from a file into the Informix TimeSeries table.

You can use the HCL OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix along with the Informix TimeSeries Plug-in for OAT to administer database objects that are related to a time series.

The following illustration shows how the Informix TimeSeries solution and the related products interact.

Figure 1. Informix TimeSeries architecture