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 Db2: Manage data, maximize performance
Structure your data to power faster low-latency transactions, continuous availability and hardened security
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Built for the world’s mission critical workloads

Delivering near infinite scalability, real-time analytics, and multicloud support, IBM® Db2® is an AI-powered database that accelerates decision making, reins in costs by using a single engine and promotes security for your business data.
Support your mixed transactional and analytics workloads with a low-latency, cloud-native database.

Empower your data scientists, engineers and developers to ingest, catalog, and analyze data from anywhere.

Accelerate and enrich data queries with an enterprise-grade, hybrid ANSI-compliant SQL-on-Hadoop engine.

Optimize database health and performance with a suite of management, migration and recovery tools.

Analyst Recognition

IBM named a Leader for the third time in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems.

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Data unleashed
Build quickly

Deploy an adaptable data architecture designed to accelerate the creation of cloud-native apps.

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Share easily

Liberate your data with a database that delivers high concurrency across multiple formats, including Apache Iceberg and Apache Parquet.

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Choose wisely

Drive decisions using real-time dashboards and reporting with continual data ingest, in-memory processing and analytics.

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Harness AI

Build and deploy machine learning modules directly in the database engine without ever moving your data.

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Promote flexibility

Modernize applications to scale across your hybrid cloud architectures—for example, Amazon RDS—with like for like compatibility.

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Empower teams

Scale data securely while making it available to developers for building AI-powered apps and assistants.

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One solution, many options

Deploy Db2 wherever and however you need it—in the cloud of your choice, on-premises or in a hybrid infrastructure.
Self-managed

Maintain complete control of your database environment with an on-premises deployment that runs on your own systems.

 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Install and run Db2 in a cloud-managed environment, such as IBM Cloud® or Amazon Web Services (AWS).

 Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Opt for a containerized approach that incorporates Red Hat® OpenShift® or Kubernetes running on Microsoft® Azure or AWS.

 Software as a Service (SaaS)

Secure on-demand scaling and align costs with actual use as a fully managed service on IBM Cloud or AWS.

Read from our technical experts

 

Read from IBM subject matter experts, learn from the experiences of fellow Db2 users, and take the opportunity to share your own best practices!
The AI Optimizer in Db2

Know how the Db2 optimizer is evolving into the next generation Db2 AI optimizer.

 Read the blog post Comparing Db2 12.1 vs. PostgreSQL

Explore how Db2 is better than PostgreSQL for transactional workloads.

 Know more about our findings AI Query Optimizer in Db2 v12.1

Learn how AI-guided cardinality estimation can lead to better execution performance.

 Read the post pureScale with Pacemaker: The Big Picture

Dive into the inner workings of the pureScale resource model with Db2 Pacemaker.

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Get your data under control with a high-performance database designed to organize your information how you want, where you want. Try it at no cost.

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