DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

Accelerate insight. Improve resiliency. Maintain flexibility.

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The Future of Data Management
Simple to implement and manage, IBM DB2 helps you leverage analytics to enable better decision-making, improves performance, eases database administration, streamlines development, and lowers your data management costs.

Speed of thought analytics
Accelerate your reporting and analytical workload times to the speed of thought when you harness the power of DB2 with BLU Acceleration. Top performance and storage efficiency are yours – without database tuning, indexes or aggregates.

Always available transactions
Service continuity powered by DB2 high availability disaster recovery solutions and pureScale clustering technology keeps your organization "always on". You get business resiliency, while reducing costs by efficiently using your system resources.

Affordability
Dramatically reduce costs with in-memory speed and simplicity on existing infrastructure; SAP workload optimization; and 98% Oracle^® Database application compatibility.

Future-proof versatility
DB2 is ready whenever your business is ready. Versatile, flexible, and future-ready with optimized capabilities for OLTP and data warehousing – and application flexibility with business-grade NoSQL and mobile database.

IBM® DB2® for Linux, UNIX and Windows is the database of choice for robust, enterprise-wide solutions handling high-volume workloads. DB2 is optimized to deliver industry-leading performance while lowering costs.

Explore DB2 features and benefits

DB2 software editions

Advanced Enterprise Server Edition
A comprehensive database multi-workload database data warehousing, transactional and analytics capabilities, ideal for the enterprise.
Enterprise Server Edition
A scalable database to handle the demanding workloads of large and mid-sized enterprise servers.
Express Edition
Provides all the core capabilities of DB2 at no charge. Easy to use and embed.

Advanced Workgroup Server Edition
A multi-workload database with data warehousing, transactional and analytics capabilities, ideal for mid-sized business environments.
Workgroup Server Edition
A scalable, high-performance database, ideal for departmental, workgroup, or mid-sized business environments.
DB2 features, listed by software edition

Express-C
A no-charge community edition of DB2 server which provides the core features of the more scalable DB2 editions.

Developer Edition
Allows developers to evaluate, demonstrate, develop and test database and warehousing applications in a non-production environment.

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DB2 Database Management solution portfolio can help to improve the data availability, optimize performance, reduce operational costs and total cost of ownership.