Meaning – DB2, which expands to mean Database 2, refers to the family of database management tools developed and released by IBM. Database 2, or DB2 offers the users, a seamless package to manage the data at an individual or enterprise level.
Some of the benefits of the DB2 package, include –
- Reduce storage requirements by 47% and increase compression rates by 39%. Align with the latest NIST and FIPS standards.
- Integrate with up to 10 modern programming languages. The REST service enables interaction with Db2 data from your web, mobile or cloud application.
- Use data virtualisation to reduce data extraction and transformation requests between 25% and 65%. Multimodal data management can save an additional USD 200,000.
- Reduce operational overhead costs by up to 26%. Reduce infrastructure and application development platform costs by an average of 38% using cloud-native databases and platform integration.
Example of usage – “The Database administrator requested to upgrade the database management package, to the new Database management 2 package, as it was better, faster and more secure.”