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 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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Results
90%
A reduction in reporting time on sales data for all stores nationwide for Valor Holdings
7-figure
Annual savings identified for GEO Corp after moving from Oracle to Db2 and optimizing marketing analytics processes
>140M
Marriott Bonvoy members serviced with personalized experiences through a hybrid analytics
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.
Discover watsonx.data
Scale AI workloads, for all your data, anywhere
What’s new with Db2
Modernize your applications and accelerate digital transformation
Stand out from the competition by moving to cloud, multicloud or hybrid cloud solutions with IBM Db2 Warehouse.
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Use cases
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.
IBM named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Management for Analytics, Q1 2023
Gain flexibility
Your choice of deployment model
Fully-managed in the cloud
Run a fully managed version of Db2 Warehouse on AWS or IBM Cloud®.
On IBM Cloud Pak® for Data
Deploy Db2 Warehouse as an extension on IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform.
On premises on Linux, Unix, or Windows
Run Db2 Warehouse on these common operating systems.
Features
Data engineer
Db2 for data engineering
Power accessible, governed, real-time data with high speed ingest and data-driven governance policies.
Ultrafast ingest and querying
Ingest data continually across diverse sources with support for high-speed bulk, batch, and micro-batch workloads, powering cloud native apps, real-time analytics, and BI.
Control data access and governance
Direct governed access to live data sets, services, and applications. Control data visibility and masking for different levels of authority. Manage HIPAA and GDPR compliance with in-motion and at rest encryption, row-column access, data masking, and more.
Developer
Build, test and deploy
Built for programming languages such as Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, R, Perl, C, C++, pureXML, Gremlin, XQuery, Mongo, FLWOR Expression, and JSON, and more for developing robust applications.
Integrate with third party applications
Power dashboards and BI with fast ingest and real time insights. Seamlessly integrate third party reporting applications such as IBM Cognos, Planning Analytics, Tableau, PowerBI, Qlik, Looker, SAP and ETL tools such as DataStage, Informatica and more.
Enterprise architect
Db2 for enterprise architects
Built for any data type, any workload, anywhere
Store and query anything
Whether you need to analyze social media performance or geospatial data, ingest, store, and query a mix of models including XML, JSON, text, Graph, spatial data in a single database.
Real-time analytical and operational data
Analyze your analytical and operational data in real-time with Db2’s in-memory hybrid-columnar data architecture. Db2 speeds analytics and reporting with a combination of in-memory and column store data retrieval, maximized CPU processing, and data skipping that allows for faster input/output.
Data scientist
Db2 for data science
Accelerate AI to build, evaluate and train models directly inside the database, eliminating data movement while securely scaling ML workloads.
Execute machine learning models
From decision trees to K-means clustering, choose from a variety of in-database algorithms or seamlessly build and deploy open-source Python and R models on the database.
Db2 Warehouse in action
Introduction to Db2 Warehouse
See an overview of Db2 Warehouse features and download tips.
Scale out Db2 Warehouse with MPP
Get an overview of the MPP capabilities and installation of Db2 Warehouse.
Scale out a Db2 Warehouse cluster
See how Db2 Warehouse makes it easy to scale out in to meet workload demands.
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.

Resources
Blogs
Tech preview
Reduce costs and improve performance of workloads with the next generation of Db2 Warehouse tech preview.
Seven trends that will impact your data management strategy
See how Db2 plays an essential role in the seven trends that will impact your data management strategy.
The hidden history of Db2
Learn how a database theory turned into the Db2 database running billions of transactions a day.
Webcasts
Tech preview
Reduce costs and improve performance of workloads with the next generation of Db2 Warehouse tech preview.
Audiograms
Audiograms
Listen to these audiograms to know the importance of Db2 features.
Cutting the size of a database
Fred Sobotka discusses the importance and value of the adaptive compression feature of Db2.
The core strengths of Db2
Consultant Mark Gillis discusses the confidence that Db2 features bring to customers.
Data integrity importance
Sr Software Engineer Roy Boxwell discusses the Db2 ability to secure data against big losses.
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