Overview
Introducing the latest generation of Db2 Warehouse, optimized for always-on analytics workloads anywhere
Take greater control over your analytics operational costs with a cloud-native data warehouse that meets your price and performance objectives for always-on workloads, provides simple, governed access to all of your data, and enables a singular view of your analytics estate. At IBM, we have aligned our product and business model around this need.
The latest generation of our cloud-native Db2 Warehouse enables the ability to store and analyze governed data across a variety of sources, formats, and analytics environments, while reducing cost, improving performance, and controlling resource consumption at scale. Seamlessly integrate with watsonx.data so that you can optimize and scale all of your analytics and AI workloads across the enterprise.
A different approach to cloud data warehousing
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Benefits
Cut storage costs while improving performance
Db2 Warehouse now runs natively on highly resilient, inexpensive cloud object storage. Coupled with advanced caching techniques, now your analytics workloads run faster than previous generations while reducing your storage costs.
Share data responsibly
Export, import and directly query open data formats in your data lake, using a single, governed, cloud-native Db2 engine.
Scale analytics and AI across the enterprise
Db2 Warehouse seamlessly integrates with the watsonx.data data store, built on a data lakehouse architecture service, to provide you with a singular view of your entire analytics estate. Easily shift workloads and run fit-for-purpose engines that best meet your workload and price-performance needs.
Use cases
Real-time analytics
Real-time analytics
Empower users that demand low-latency querying and real-time insights with continual data ingest, in-memory processing and in-database analytics.
Machine learning and AI
Machine learning and AI
Create and predict with high-performance machine learning models inside your data warehouse. Integrate with IBM Watson® Studio for additional ML capabilities.
Reporting and business intelligence
Reporting and business intelligence
Build reports and dashboards quickly by seamlessly integrating Db2 with a variety of BI tools including IBM Cognos® Analytics, Tableau, Microsoft PowerBI, Google Looker and more.
Secure data sharing
Secure data sharing
Grant access and distribute data among users and third parties without data duplication. Integration with watsonx.data’s shared metadata, open table formats, and object storage enables a single copy of data to support multiple analytics and AI requirements.
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Features
Db2 Warehouse on Cloud details
Fast engine
Columnar-organized, in-memory data warehouse designed for complex analytics and extreme concurrency
Scalable, elastic cloud service
Independent scaling and management of compute and storage
Expertly managed, highly secure
Fully automated cloud service, supported by a world-class IBM DevOps team
Share data via open format
Eliminate data silos by sharing Db2 tables with data lakes and lakehouse engines via open table and data formats (Iceberg, Parquet, AVRO, ORC, CSV, JSON and more)
Highly resilient and reliable
Built-in self-service snapshot backups and geo-replicated disaster recovery backups
Built-in machine learning
Ability to train and run machine learning models directly in the warehouse engine, using SQL, Python or R
Boost revenue with cloud solutions
Stand out from the competition by moving to cloud, multicloud or hybrid cloud with IBM Db2.
Testimonial
The advantage of using Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is we not only process all the data we have, we process it, automate it at scale, and provide access to the data simultaneously.
Shiv Sehgal
Chief Product Officer
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