Db2 | IBM

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.

Db2 v12.1.2 packed with vector data store, similarity search and much more - now generally available.

Announcing general availability of Db2 Intelligence Center: an AI twin that never sleeps

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

Db2 Database

Support your mixed transactional and analytics workloads with a low-latency, cloud-native database.

Db2 Warehouse

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

IBM Db2 BigSQL

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

IBM Db2 tools

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

Data unleashed

Build quickly

Harness built-in AI capabilities, including vector data storage, to accelerate AI applications by integrating structured and unstructured data.

See it in action

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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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.

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Augment your Db2 security with IBM Guardium Data Protection

Protect your critical data with advanced visibility, automated compliance and real-time threat detection.

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

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Tip of the (Db2) Iceberg

Learn how Iceberg tables in Db2 enable consistent, scalable data lake operations.

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IBM’s P10 PCR for Db2 Warehouse Solution - Chapter 2: Db2 12.1 Performance Deep-Dive

Discover how Power10 and Db2 12.1 boost performance for complex analytical workloads.

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Understanding pureScale: A Practical Guide to Adoption – Part 1

Learn how to prep and tune OLTP apps for peak performance on Db2 pureScale.

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Db2 Security in v12

Explore how Db2 V12 boosts security with smarter defaults and tighter controls.

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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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Db2: Manage data, maximize performance

Built for the world’s mission critical workloads

Data unleashed

One solution, many options

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