This feature now offers support for low-latency network interfaces with the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on AWS EC2 instances, serving to optimize performance for more demanding workloads, according ...

IBM itself is using the BLU components of DB2 10.5 as a cornerstone for its DB2 SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), to add computational heft for data reporting and analysis jobs.

Meanwhile, IBM said Db2 11.5 has a shared code base with three editions: Db2, Db2 Standard and Db2 Advanced. Db2 is a trial download for developers with a single application to prototype and test.

IBM also intends to bring out a version of DB2 9 for its System z mainframe before year’s end, he added. DB2 9 Enterprise Edition, a full-blown version of the database, is priced from US$36,400 ...

IBM doesn’t release a whole lot of news detailing the ins and outs of its Db2 database division. Indeed, database vendors including Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and open source champions such as ...

Learn More. IBM has released the DB2 Information Integrator, which includes search technology that will bring order to the often-jumbled data sources of corporate intranets, company officials said.

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.

IBM released DB2 version 10 for z/OS in 2010. This release is for Linux, Unix and Windows systems, and has a different codebase and is maintained by different set of developers from the z/OS version.