IBM DB2
Universal Database
DB2 Universal Database is the database management system that delivers a flexible and cost-effective database platform to build robust on demand business applications.
DB2 UDB leverages resources with broad support for open standards and popular development platforms like J2EE and Microsoft .NET. The DB2 UDB family also includes solutions tailored for specific needs like business intelligence and advanced tooling. Whatever the scale of an organisation, DB2 UDB has a solution built and priced to meet every unique need.
DB2 Universal Database V8.2 accelerates times to value with numerous innovative enhancements. Improved integration with key development tools and platforms will help make programmers more efficient than ever. A broad array of autonomic or self-managing capabilities will free more administrator time to focus on driving business value or even eliminate the need for dedicated administrators in smaller implementations. These efficiencies combined with the attractive license costs will deliver TCO to satisfy even the most constrained budgets.
Key enhancements within DB2 Universal Database V8.2 include:
- Design Advisor, an innovative technology that assists DBAs in making optimal and comprehensive database design decisions including integrating complex capabilities partitioning, materialized query tables, and much more reducing deployment time from days to minutes
- Automated statistics profiling represents
- Autonomic Object Maintenance to automatically perform policy-based administration and maintenance functions, such as table reorganization, statistics collection, and database backup
- High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) and client reroute features enable 24x7 information availability and resilience required by on demand enterprises
- To improve programmer productivity and provide choice of programming environments, DB2 UDB provides deep integration with, or plug-ins for, both Java/Eclipse and Microsoft .NET as well as IDEs such as IBM WebSphere Studio and Rational Studio products and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
- DB2 Geodetic Extender supports treatment of the Earth like a globe rather than a flat map. Thus, making it easier to develop applications for business intelligence and e-government that require geographical location analysis
- DB2 provides full 64-bit support on Windows x64, UNIX and Linux distributions
Business Benefit:
- Reduces deployment and management costs, delivering more capability and flexibility with minimum hardware requirements and the leverage of existing skills
- Increases programmer productivity
- Ensures availability through High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR)
- Streamlines and simplifies database administration through self-managing technologies and management tools
- Delivers leading performance across a broad range of application and industry benchmarks on a range of hardware and software platforms
- Realises performance and scalability; with the ability to handle millions of transactions or many terabytes of data, DB2 scales to handle any workload on your choice of architectures
- Enables information on demand through a foundation of reliability, availability, and security whilst supporting the new technologies, like web services, necessary for today's challenges