What's new in Db2 11.5

The topics in the following categories describe new capabilities available in Db2® 11.5.

Highlights of Db2 11.5
IBM® Db2 11.5 offers database efficiency, simplicity, and reliability in the form of new features and enhancements that address a wide variety of business requirements. Comprehensive enterprise security, simplified installation and deployment, better usability and adoption, a streamlined upgrade process, enhancements to large databases, and vast improvements to BLU Acceleration are the key benefits that this technology delivers.
Manageability enhancements
11.5 provides enhancements that make it easier to manage Db2 environments, minimize the total cost of ownership (TCO), reduce the impact of performing system management tasks, and extend the capabilities of the autonomic features introduced in previous releases.
Spatial data analysis enhancements
Db2 support for geospatial data types now includes Spatial Analytics. These new features provide users with the ability to perform spatial analysis on spatial data in column-organized tables, as well as row-organized tables. Spatial Analytics uses filtering based on geometry properties to speed up query performance.
Federation server enhancements
Db2 11.5 provides enhanced access to data sources in a Federation Server environment.
Monitoring enhancements
Db2 11.5 includes enhancements that make monitoring Db2 database environments more comprehensive with higher granularity of control.
Performance enhancements
Db2 11.5 contains numerous SQL performance enhancements that continue to make the Db2 data server an industrial-strength data server solution that is suitable for any size of organization.
Compression and Space Reclamation enhancements for column-organized tables
Db2 11.5 contains numerous compression and space reclamation enhancements for column-organized tables that continue to make Db2 an industrial-strength database solution that is suitable for any size of organization.
SQL compatibility enhancements
If you work with relational database products other than Db2 database products, Db2 11.5 contains enhancements that reduce the time and complexity of enabling applications that were written for other relational database products to run in Db2 environments.
Workload management enhancements
Db2 11.5 features extend the workload management capabilities provided in previous releases.
IBM data server client and driver enhancements
Some IBM data server clients and drivers have been enhanced with new and improved features that improve application performance and reliability.
IBM Db2 pureScale Feature enhancements
Db2 version 11.5 continues to build on Db2 pureScale® Feature support and provides several enhancements.

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