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 ...

“The whole concept behind DB2 with BLU Acceleration is really quite fascinating,” Andrew Juarez, a lead database administrator at Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, said in a statement.

IBM has announced version 9.7 of DB2 and InfoSphere Warehouse software, focused on transactional performance improvements in the DB2 database, and on expansion of analytics to XML data in the ...

IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 database management software under an open-source license. While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open-source DB2, market ...

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 first released an Express version of its DB2 software in 2003, aiming the less-expensive database software at smaller organizations willing to trade scalability restrictions for a lower price.

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 ...