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Overview

What is IBM Watson® Query?

IBM Watson Query is a universal query engine that executes distributed and virtualized queries across databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and streaming data without additional manual changes, data movement or replication. Available through the data fabric capabilities of the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform, IBM Watson Query is vendor agnostic and a key piece in modernizing your data architecture to accelerate digital transformation. 

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Benefits

Achieve speed and simplicity

Improve performance through intelligent caching.

Reduce workload

Query data where it resides, including data lakes, minimizing movement and copies.

Capitalize on end-to-end data governance

Leverage cataloging technology to ensure queries are run on high-quality, valid data.

Cut costs with independent scaling

Gain independent scaling of compute and storage with zero downtime.

Available fully managed

Achieve flexibility and deploy how you need it with virtualization capabilities as a service or on premises.

How IBM Watson Query is used

Optimize data access

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Optimize data access

Unify data across any cloud, warehouse, data lake or database. Empower users to fully exploit all your data for innovation.

Deliver quality data

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Deliver quality data

Ensure better business outcomes by more easily integrating well-governed data from across a hybrid landscape.

Features

Simplify your data landscape

Distributed query engine

Eliminates data migration and executes against data repositories regardless of data type or structure.

Object Storage compatibility

Facilitates independent scaling of storage when used in place of traditional block storage.

Pre-integrated data cataloging

Automates data governance and cataloging to help ensure data validity and quality.

Key use cases

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Data Governance and Privacy

Learn how businesses can simplify data governance and privacy to create a trusted, business-ready data foundation.
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Multicloud Data Integration

Get a single view of data across hybrid multicloud data sources — without data movement and in a secure, governed fashion.
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Customer 360

Break down data siloes and query multiple sources to manage and govern data, while enabling your team to build fit-for-purpose, 360-degree customer views.

Resources

Improving data access

Learn how IBM Watson Query helps simplify your data access.

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Four use cases defining the new wave of data management

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