IBM is a Gartner Customer Choice 2022 recipient for cloud DBMS
Overview
The tested, resilient, always-on database built to run anywhere
To support fast insights, you need a flexible data ecosystem agile enough to deliver data anywhere it’s needed, anytime it’s needed.
No matter the volume or complexity of your transactions, IBM® Db2 is the trusted database designed to provide your data-intensive apps and services with low-latency, extreme availability, and elastic scalability. Easily deploy, develop and run on the database accessible to everyone, everywhere.
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Build cloud-native apps
Let’s build something great. Db2 is a fully managed database that runs in the cloud, Kubernetes container as part of your microservices architecture, or infrastructure as a service.
Simplified data ecosystem
Embrace data diversity. Store and query more than just traditional structured data in a unified database built with multi-model functionality and data lake integration.
Always-on database
The always-on database. Eliminate unplanned downtime with best-in-class failure detection and recovery, with Db2 pureScale. pureScale leverages our parallel sysplex architecture, providing mainframe-class availability for your mission critical workloads.
Security at the core
Protect your most sensitive data and manage GDPR compliance with built-in features such as in-motion and at rest encryption, row-column access, data masking, and more.
Intelligent operations
Do less, build more. Db2’s built-in container operators automate maintenance activities, memory tuning, and more. Automate database operations with adaptive workload management and a ML-optimized query engine.
Enjoy continuous availability
IBM Db2 pureScale® is now on Amazon Web Services. Best-in-class failure detection and recovery means you eliminate unplanned downtime while achieving high performance.
IBM named a Leader
Gartner® releases 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems
Gain flexibility
Your choice of deployment model
On IBM Cloud Pak® for Data
Deploy Db2 as an extension on the IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform.
Db2 Database benefits
Enterprise ready
Developer ready
Cost effective
Resilient and consumable
Feature highlights
IBM Db2 Database details
Industry-leading performance
Potential for 30% improvement in transactional response time⁶ with fast data retrieval and queries plus disk space compression
Advanced protection
Advanced authorization, encryption at rest and in transit, and comprehensive security controls for managing GDPR compliance
Continuous availability
Auto resynchronization and recovery plus clustering with IBM pureScale® to keep business running 24x7
Automated administration and tuning
Automatic setup, optimization, diagnostics and management of the database environment to save DBA time and cut maintenance costs
Multiple data types and languages
Flexible environment, integrates with multiple platforms plus supports NoSQL, pureXML, Graph and JSON; Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, Perl and more for building robust apps
Scaling
Elastic scaling up to 128 machines in multicloud and hybrid environments to reduce storage costs; data federation eliminates data silos
Not sure which option is best?
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Database resource usage
Database resource usage
Get resource usage information for running or queued queries.
Database throughput
Database throughput
Check the rate that data changes are retrieved, sent and applied on the target system.
Scalability
Scalability
Monitor on-demand scalability in Db2 on Cloud to manage data needs.
Data load
Data load
Get quick data transfer to Db2 on Cloud from cloud-based storage or your desktop.
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.
What’s new with Db2
IBM is named a Leader
IBM is named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Cloud Database Management Systems.
Get up to speed on Db2 on Cloud
IBM® Db2® on Cloud is a fully managed public cloud service on IBM Cloud.
Db2 on IBM Cloud Pak for Data
IBM leaders Daniel Hernandez and Ayal Steinberg explore how the right data management foundation can accelerate AI adoption.
IDUG 2022 EMEA Db2 Tech Conference
Join the IDUG community in Edinburgh from 22-26 October 2022
Next steps
Footnotes
¹, ⁶ Cost/Benefit Case for IBM Db2 11.5 Compared to Oracle Database 19c for OLTP Deployments. Quark + Lepton. 14 April 2020.
² New Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact™ of IBM Cloud Pak for Data, A Forrester study commissioned by IBM. February 2020.
³ “Neo4j Enterprise Commercial Prices” blog. John Mark. 10 January 2018. (link resides outside IBM).
⁴ Delivering Business Value through Transitioning from Management VMs to Orchestrating Containers. An Ovum report commissioned by IBM. February 2019.
⁵ The Business Value of Red Hat Open Shift (PDF, 322 KB) (link resides outside IBM). An IDC white paper sponsored by Red Hat. October 2017.