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What is IBM Db2?

IBM® Db2® is the cloud-native database built to power low-latency transactions and real-time analytics at scale. Built on decades of innovation in data security, scalability and availability, you can use Db2 to keep your applications and analytics protected, highly performant and resilient, anywhere.

It provides a single engine for DBAs, enterprise architects and developers to:

  • Run critical applications.
  • Store and query data.
  • Enable faster decision-making.
  • Drive innovation across organizations.

The data leader’s guide to leverage the right databases for applications, analytics and generative AI

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Why IBM Db2 400% Highly resilient, scalable applications  

Approximately 400% more users are supported with IBM Db2 pureScale® to run Puma’s 24x7 mission-critical operations.2

USD 1M Price-performance at scale  

Cost savings of more than USD 1 million for Owens-Illinois when migrating from Oracle to Db2.3

90% Real-time decisions       

Marriott International's analytics on 140 million Marriott Bonvoy members resulted in 90% faster performance.4

Built for all your workloads
IBM Db2 database No matter the volume or complexity of your transactions, Db2 is the database built to perform. Now available on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Explore IBM Db2 database

IBM Db2 Warehouse With IBM® Db2® Warehouse, you can run mission-critical analytics workloads cost-effectively and responsibly across all types of data. Integrate with watsonx.data to scale AI workloads, anywhere.  Explore IBM Db2 Warehouse

Benefits of Db2 Modernize mission-critical apps  

Run mission-critical applications with continuous availability, built-in refined security and effortless scalability, anywhere.

Scale analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) across the enterprise

Share data in open formats and natively integrate with IBM® watsonx.data™ lakehouse for a single view of your analytics and AI estate.

Build cloud-native apps

Start powering your data-intensive apps and services with a cloud-native database built for high concurrency, flexible scaling and fast insights.

Secure and govern your data

Use the built-in encryption, access controls, data masking and other features of Db2 to protect your most sensitive data whether it's located in the cloud, hybrid environments or on premises.

Power operational analytics and BI

Empower real-time decision-making and perform operational analysis and business intelligence with fast ingest, in-database analytics and in-memory data processing.

Simplify your data ecosystem

Reduce costs and complexity with a single, cloud-native engine built for mixed OLTP and OLAP workloads and tight integration with your data lake or watsonx.data lakehouse for AI.

IBM Db2 tools

IBM Db2 database management and developer tools make it easier to optimize and scale your workloads.

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IBM Db2 Big SQL

IBM® Db2® Big SQL allows you to query data across cloud data lakes and Hadoop with a high-performance, massively parallel SQL engine built with advanced multimodal and multicloud capabilities.

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Deployment options You need a database that you can deploy in the cloud of your choice, on premises and in a hybrid environment. Deploy a unified enterprise data platform that runs anywhere with Db2. Read about Db2 on IBM Cloud Pak for Data Cloud-managed service

Deploy Db2 as a fully managed, SLA-backed service on IBM Cloud® and Amazon Web Services (AWS) including RDS. Take advantage of on-demand scaling, continuous updates and consumption-based billing in the cloud. 

Cloud-managed container

Deploy Db2 as a container on cloud-managed Red Hat® OpenShift® or Kubernetes services on AWS and Microsoft Azure and integrate Db2 into your cloud solution. 

Self-managed infrastructure or IaaS

Deploy Db2 as a traditional installation on top of on-premises infrastructure or cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service and get control of your Db2 deployment.

Industry solutions
Financial services

Ingest, transform and analyze billions of transactions a day to power core operations.

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Public sector

Modernize applications with a highly secure, available and resilient hybrid database.

American University of Cairo improves the university experience

Protect health information and improve healthcare outcomes with unified analytical data for patient insights.

Support personalized content and cost-effective media campaigns while protecting consumer data.

Manufacturing

Optimize inventory and supply chain operations with predictive analytics, high availability and cloud-native applications.

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Retail and e-commerce

Enable real-time insights across billions of omnichannel touchpoints and optimize customer experiences.

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Travel and transportation

Improve ride service by real-time prediction and streamline customer experience using AI solution.

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Our clients Owens-Illinois

Owens-Illinois migrated their worldwide database infrastructure to Db2 to reduce costs, reduce storage footprint and improve transaction speed.

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State Bank of India 

State Bank of India used IBM® Cognos® Analytics, IBM® SPSS® Statistics and IBM Db2 to deliver a more streamlined customer experience and developed more targeted service offerings, including more than 10 million cardless ATM withdrawals.

Read the SBI case study
Puma

Puma deployed IBM Db2 pureScale to help ensure that its database environment would have the power and scalability to process rising transaction loads.

Read the Puma case study
Awards and reviews G2 Top 50 IT Infrastructure Product Award
Resources Database guide for AI

Read the data leader’s guide for choosing the right database solutions for applications, analytics and AI.

Forrester Total Economic Impact™ for IBM Data Management

See how Db2 is helping IBM drive a 241% ROI in Forrester’s 2022 Total Economic Impact report for Data Management.

Db2 version update

Learn about 1.5 times improved load time and other enhancements in Db2 11.5.8 cloud-first.

The hidden history of Db2

Learn how a database theory turned into the Db2 database running billions of transactions a day.

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Footnotes

1  IDC Amazon Relational Database Service Delivers Enhanced Database Performance at Lower Cost.

2 Statistic provided by Puma to IBM, externally referenced supporting 300-400% more users by enabling Db2 with Db2 pureScale compared to previously running Db2 without pureScale.

3 Statistic provided by Owens-Illinois to IBM, externally referenced cost savings of more than USD 1 million for Owens-Illinois when migrating from Oracle to Db2.

4 Statistic provided by Marriott International to IBM, referenced faster performance for Marriott International's analytics on more than 140 million Marriott Bonvoy members.