- IBM Db2 has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice vendor for 2024 on Gartner® Peer Insights™ “Voice of the Customer: Cloud Database Management Systems.”
- Why DB2 is called DB2? The name DB/2 originally referred to IBM’s shift from a hierarchical database model to the relational database model.
- The db2tutorial.com website provides a comprehensive Db2 tutorial that includes practical examples and many hands-on activities.
- Database Management System or DBMS was named DB2 (IBM Database 2) in 1983 when IBM released DB2 on its MVS mainframe platform.
- DB2 Tutorial - Database 2(db2) is a Relational Database Management System offered by IBM. It can be used for single-user application to a large multi-user system.
- Db2 does not scale as well horizontally as NoSQL because of the consistency model it uses, but it can scale vertically by adding CPU and memory.
- In 2017, IBM Db2 was announced which is the successor name of DB2 (introduced in the 1980s). IBM Db2 has four different code bases.
- In the later part, we will also look at some features that enable DB2 to reach a position where it is currently enjoying its stature! Here are a few features