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.

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.

DB2 is optimized for the cloud, SAP, Intel’s Xeon processor and IBM POWER. This expansion has brought the power of the relational database to a variety of businesses worldwide.

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 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 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 ...