Overview
What is IBM Db2?
IBM Db2 is the cloud-native database built to power low latency transactions and real-time analytics at scale. It provides a single engine for DBAs, enterprise architects and developers to keep critical applications running, store and query anything and power faster decision making and innovation across your organization. Built on decades of innovation in data security, scalability and availability, keep your applications and analytics protected, highly performant and resilient, anywhere.
IBM Db2 explained (03:00)
Learn about the benefits of Db2
Highly resilient, scalable applications
~400%
more users supported with IBM Db2 pureScale® to run Puma’s 24/7 mission-critical operations¹.
Price-performance at scale
7-figure
cost reduction and 20-30% performance improvements for Owens-Illinois when migrating from Oracle to Db2².
Real-time decisions
90%
reduction in reporting time on sales data for all stores nationwide for Valor Holdings³.
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What can Db2 do for you?
Modernize mission-critical apps
Run mission critical applications with continuous availability, built-in refined security, and effortless scalability, anywhere.
Power real-time analytics
Empower real-time decision-making and perform heavy computational analysis with fast ingest, in-database analytics, and in-memory data processing.
Build cloud-native apps
Start powering your data-intensive apps and services with a cloud-native database built for high concurrency, flexible scaling and fast insights.
Secure and govern your data
Use Db2’s built in encryption, access controls, data masking and more to protect your most sensitive data located in the cloud, hybrid or on-premises.
Deploy machine learning and AI
Create, evaluate and predict with high-performance machine learning models directly inside Db2.
Simplify your data landscape
Reduce costs and complexity with a single engine built for transactional (OLTP), analytical (OLAP), and operational workloads and tight integration of your data lake.
Built for all your workloads
IBM Db2 Database
No matter the volume or complexity of your transactions, Db2 is the database built to perform.
IBM Db2 Warehouse
Run always-on, analytics workloads cost-effectively and responsibly across all types of data.
IBM Db2 Tools
Database management and developer tools that make it easy to optimize and scale your workloads.
IBM Db2 Big SQL
IBM Db2 Big SQL allows you to query data across cloud data lakes and Hadoop with a high-performance, massively parallel SQL engine built with advanced multimodal, multicloud capabilities.
IBM named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Management for Analytics, Q1 2023
Deployment options
Anywhere deployment
Cloud-managed service
Deploy Db2 as a fully managed, SLA-backed service on IBM Cloud® and Amazon Web Services. Take advantage of on-demand scaling, continuous updates and consumption-based billing in the cloud.
Cloud-managed container
Deploy Db2 as a container on cloud-managed Red Hat® OpenShift® or Kubernetes services on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and integrate Db2 into your cloud solution.
Self-managed infrastructure or IaaS
Deploy Db2 as a traditional installation atop on-premises infrastructure or cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service and gain better control over your Db2 deployment.
Our clients
Industry solutions
Public sector
Public sector
Modernize applications with a highly secure, available and resilient hybrid database.
Healthcare
Healthcare
Protect health information and improve healthcare outcomes with unified analytical data for patient insights.
Retail and eCommerce
Retail and eCommerce
Enable real-time insights across billions of omni-channel touchpoints and optimized customer experiences.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Optimize inventory and supply chain operations with predictive analytics, high availability and cloud-native applications.
Media and entertainment
Media and entertainment
Support personalized content and cost-effective media campaigns while protecting consumer data.
Industry accolades
IBM Db2 recognized for G2 and TrustRadius awards
IBM Db2 is a leader in the Summer 2022 Grid Report for data warehousing and Top Rated on TrustRadius for relational databases, DBaaS, data warehousing and cloud data warehousing.
G2 (link resides outside ibm.com)
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IBM is a Gartner Customer Choice
IBM Is a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Cloud Database Management Systems.
Resources
Blogs
Tech preview
Reduce costs and improve performance of workloads with the next generation of Db2 Warehouse tech preview.
Speed load time
Learn about 1.5x improved load time and other enhancements in Db2 11.5.8 cloud-first.
The hidden history of Db2
Learn how a database theory turned into the Db2 database running billions of transactions a day.
Data management strategy trends
See how Db2 plays an essential role in the seven trends that will impact your data management strategy.
Webcasts
Db2 webcast
Reduce costs and improve performance of workloads with the next generation of Db2 Warehouse tech preview.
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Next steps
Talk to a Db2 expert
Schedule a 30-minute no-cost consultation to discuss your needs.
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 (02:53) to IBM, externally referenced 7-figure cost reduction and 20-30% performance improvements.
³ Statistic provided by Valor Holdings to IBM, externally referenced 90% reduction in reporting time on sales data for all stores nationwide in Japan.