IBM Db2® Big SQL V6.0 Beta is now available
IBM Db2® Big SQL V6.0 Beta is now available Learn more
What is IBM Db2 Big SQL?
IBM Db2 Big SQL is an enterprise grade, hybrid ANSI-compliant SQL on Hadoop engine, delivering massively parallel processing (MPP) and advanced data query. Big SQL offers a single database connection or query for disparate sources such as HDFS, RDMS, NoSQL databases, object stores and WebHDFS. Benefit from low latency, high performance, security, SQL compatibility, and federation capabilities to do ad-hoc and complex queries.
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Announcement: Db2 Big SQL is now part of the IBM Hybrid Data Management Platform
Product benefits

Access, query & analyze data across data warehouse & Hadoop
Understands commonly used ANSI SQL syntax to support batch/real-time data.

Scale with hybrid cloud-ready flexibility
Shift workloads within a public/private cloud and on - premises environment based on your application requirements.

Drive realtime analytics with Apache Spark integration
Concurrently exploit Hive, Hbase, and Spark using a single data base connection, even a single query.

Connect your data scientist to their data
Use IBM DSX , existing Jupyter Notebooks to federate to RDRMS and to Oracle, IBM Db2, and Netezza.

Access data where it resides
Where all data cannot be moved into your Hadoop system, BigSQL has unique capabilities to federate the data assets across the enterprise.

Improve query performance
Run all 99 TPC - DS queries up to 100TB with numerous concurrent users. Supports multiple workers per node for efficient CPU and memory utilization.