Learn about 1.5x improved load time and other enhancements in Db2 11.5.8 cloud-first
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.
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.
What's new in Db2? A look at new cloud database offerings with AWS and IBM Db2.
Built for all your workloads
IBM Db2 Database
No matter the volume or complexity of your transactions, Db2 is built to perform. Start powering your applications with the database built for growing workloads.
IBM Db2 Warehouse
IBM Db2 Warehouse is the cloud-native data warehouse built for analytics in real-time and insights at the right time.
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 Db2 Tools
IBM Db2 Tools is a suite of developer and DBA tools that improves your database management and optimizes query performance.
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.
See how IBM® Db2® is helping customers drive a 241% ROI in Forrester’s 2022 Total Economic Impact Report for IBM Data Management.
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)
TrustRadius (link resides outside ibm.com)
IBM is a Gartner Customer Choice
IBM Is a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Cloud Database Management Systems.
Resources
Forrester Total Economic Impact for IBM Data Management
See how Db2 is helping IBM drive a 241% ROI in Forrester’s 2022 Total Economic Impact Report for Data Management.
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.
Db2 customer support
Access the dedicated support page for your IBM Db2 product or connect with support staff.
IBM Db2 Community
Get the latest Db2 announcements and share knowledge with other Db2 users, experts, and champions.
Db2 for developers
Check out our drivers, code repository, tutorials and more to start building mission critical apps.
Next steps
Talk to a Db2 expert
Schedule a 30-minute no-cost consultation to discuss your needs.
Footnotes
¹Statistic 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.
²Statistic provided by Owens-Illinois to IBM, externally referenced 7-figure cost reduction and 20-30% performance improvements.
³Statistic provided by Valor Holdings to IBM, externally referenced 90% reduction in reporting time on sales data for all stores nationwide in Japan.