IBM DB2 9 Data Server Wins New Customers, Sets Benchmark Record

IBM today announced that just two months after its launch, the DB2 9 data server is rapidly gaining new customers and setting industry benchmark performance records.


DB2 9–code named “Viper”–is IBM’s new data server that incorporates the most significant database technology enhancements introduced to the industry in more than two decades.

Hundreds of customers across different industries have already embraced DB2 9 and many are moving their databases from Oracle to IBM’s new data server, including: American Electric Power, Central Michigan University, Farmers Insurance and Teleglobe. These new DB2 9 customers have cited the product’s combination of industry-first features, along with new security and disaster recovery enhancements, as the reasons for their migration.

“As a result of the ground breaking features in DB2 9, we are seeing a great deal of customer interest,” said Arvind Krishna, vice president IBM data servers. “Our customers are telling us that DB2 9 has ushered in a new era of data server technology that helps them to grow their businesses.”

DB2 9 marks the culmination of a five-year IBM development project that has transformed traditional, static database technology into an interactive, vibrant data server that enables clients to improve their ability to manage all types of information, such as documents, audio and video files, images, Web pages, and digitally signed XML transactions. IBM’s new data server provides an industry-first seamless and simultaneous information flow of both XML and relational data, regardless of format, platform or location.

A key measure of the impact that these new technologies are having is the “big three” industry benchmark records (TPC-C, TPC-H and SAP SD) – collectively known as the Database performance triple crown. Each benchmark has its own unique characteristics, making it difficult for a single database vendor to lead in all three.

In the history of these benchmarks, DB2 is the only data server to have held the leading performance results for all three at the same time. IBM today announced that with the introduction of DB2 9 it has set new record marks in each and has now won the “triple crown” of database performance for an unprecedented third time.

TPC-C is an OLTP benchmark which requires efficient use large memory, intensive random read/write I/O and has extremely intensive database log activity. The latest TPC-C result, which is almost 4 times the next best result, illustrates the performance of DB2 9, and its industry leading compression, partitioning, and workload management.

TPC-H is a data warehousing benchmark which demonstrates the ability to perform complex queries efficiently. DB2 9 adds even more performance and efficiency in this area with table compression that can reduce table size by up to 80 percent and improve throughput by over 40 percent in real world examples.

In addition to these two industry standard benchmarks, the 3-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark represents the de facto standard for ERP benchmarks. This leading benchmark result is further proof of the commitment to the integration of SAP applications with DB2.

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