DB2 is optimized for the cloud, SAP, Intel’s Xeon processor and IBM POWER. This expansion has brought the power of the relational database to a variety of businesses worldwide.

IBM itself is using the BLU components of DB2 10.5 as a cornerstone for its DB2 SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), to add computational heft for data reporting and analysis jobs.

IBM’s newly released DB2 9.1 (previously code-named “Viper”) sheds many of the limitations of DB2 8, boosting performance, scalability, and security. But one feature in particular, the ...

IBM also intends to bring out a version of DB2 9 for its System z mainframe before year’s end, he added. DB2 9 Enterprise Edition, a full-blown version of the database, is priced from US$36,400 ...

What’s an AI database? If you were to ask IBM executives, they would point you to Db2, the 36-year-old database that’s used by tens of thousands of companies around the world to power transactional ...

Meanwhile, IBM said Db2 11.5 has a shared code base with three editions: Db2, Db2 Standard and Db2 Advanced. Db2 is a trial download for developers with a single application to prototype and test.

IBM did not comment on the Goldman Sachs study but said that, in the most recent quarter, DB2 grew by 12 percent, marking a total of 20 consecutive quarters of growth.

The flaw affects IBM Db2 versions for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (9.7, 10.1, 10.5, 11.1, 11.5). It originates from improper usage of shared memory and exploitation is possible by sending a specially ...

IBM currently does not have a free, standalone version of its DB2 product, unlike free competing products like Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and Oracle's Database XE released recently.

IBM released DB2 version 10 for z/OS in 2010. This release is for Linux, Unix and Windows systems, and has a different codebase and is maintained by different set of developers from the z/OS version.

IBM first released an Express version of its DB2 software in 2003, aiming the less-expensive database software at smaller organizations willing to trade scalability restrictions for a lower price.