IBM® Db2® is a cloud-native database built on decades of expertise in bringing data governance and security, low-latency transactions and continuous availability to your mission critical data, analytics and AI-driven applications. With support for mixed transactional and analytical workloads, it provides a single place for DBAs, enterprise architects and developers to keep apps running, store and query anything and simplify development. No matter the volume or complexity of transactions, make your applications secure, highly performant and resilient anywhere.
Control your database costs with a cloud-native infrastructure built on scalable storage and compute. Seamlessly scale to meet your application and user demands.
Db2’s native Oracle compatibly enables a seamless migration so you can quickly start enjoying reduced licensing fees and infrastructure costs, 30% better performance4, and operational efficiencies.
Achieve continuity and avoid data-related outages with cross-region disaster recovery and 99.999% continuous availability that runs anywhere, whenever you need it.
Keep your data encrypted, masked and protected across hybrid, on-premises and cloud environments with Db2 expertise and innovation.
Connect data seamlessly from your Db2 database to Db2 Warehouse and watsonx.data for analytics and AI workloads, while saving time and costs on additional resources and skillsets.
Simplify database administration and maintenance with Db2 deployed as a fully managed service on IBM Cloud and Amazon RDS, Kubernetes container with built-in operators, or infrastructure as a service.
Database administrators (DBAs), enterprise architects and developers can leverage a single, cloud-native engine for the next generation of data and AI-driven applications
How customers use Db2
Deploy Db2 as a fully managed, SLA-backed service on IBM Cloud®. Take advantage of continuous updates, security patches, on-demand scaling and cost predictability in the cloud.
Deploy Db2 as a container on cloud-managed Red Hat® OpenShift® or Kubernetes services on AWS and Microsoft Azure, and quickly integrate Db2 into your cloud solution.
Deploy Db2 as a traditional installation on top of on-premises infrastructure or cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service and get control of your Db2 deployment.
Set up, operate and scale a Db2 database on AWS in just a few clicks. Take advantage of automated administrative tasks like provisioning, patches, backup and recovery, pay as you go pricing, and like for like compatibility of workloads to AWS cloud.
Case studies
IBM Db2 is top rated on TrustRadius for relational databases, DBaaS, data warehousing and cloud data warehousing.
IBM Db2 is a leader in the spring 2023 report for data warehousing.
IBM is a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for cloud database management systems.
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Footnotes
1 Statistic provided by Puma to IBM, externally referenced supporting 300-400% more users by enabling Db2 with Db2 pureScale compared to previously running Db2 without pureScale.
2 Statistic provided by Owens-Illinois to IBM, externally referenced cost savings of more than USD 1 million for Owens-Illinois when migrating from Oracle to Db2.
3 Statistic provided by Marriott International to IBM, referenced faster performance for Marriott International's analytics on more than 140 million Marriott Bonvoy members.