IBM currently does not have a free, standalone version of its DB2 product, unlike free competing products like Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and Oracle's Database XE released recently.

Of the open-source databases, MySQL was by far the most popular among respondents, according to Evans Data. IBM said that a future version of DB2 Express-C, code-named Viper, will include hybrid ...

Don Haderle, the man known as the “father of DB2,” has signed on to be the first member of a technical advisory board being set up by ANTs Software. ANTs markets a super-fast SQL database ...

Affected DB2 versions include DB2 on Unix, Linux and Windows (all versions, all platforms). According to IBM, DB2 users can disable or restrict remote access to the database server in order to ...

New Orleans– IBM’s road map for its DB2 Universal Database platform includes both new features and refinements of existing functions, according to Janet Perna, general of data management at IBM.

What’s an AI database? If you were to ask IBM executives, they would point you to Db2, the 36-year-old database that’s used by tens of thousands of companies around the world to power transactional ...

IBM Corp. is adding artificial intelligence capabilities to its Db2 relational database management system that should help make the 36-year-old software more useful in today’s data-driven world.

The latest release of Db2, version 11.5, unleashed on the world in June 2019, is being marketed by IBM as 'The AI Database.' AI promises to be one of the biggest technological game-changers of this ...

“Databases must be smarter. Building out Db2 as the new AI database will enable users to optimize everything from the usage of data structures, memory and disk, to the most complex queries.” ...

Big Blue could "potentially offer" a free starter edition of DB2, as part of a strategy to win over developers to its database product. Written by Aaron Tan, Contributor Nov. 18, 2005 at 8:08 a.m. PT ...