Server costs are directly linked to database performance. When IBM database and middleware software outperform the competition, it means that you can typically run the software on less expensive servers and still enjoy better performance, thus deferring or eliminating new server purchases altogether.
- DB2 leads several key industry performance benchmarks on per core metrics. DB2 has significantly more days of leadership than all other vendors combined.
- An ongoing Solitaire Interglobal study, covering more than 4,100 production systems, found that DB2 maintained a 15 - 37% performance advantage over Oracle.
- DB2 has sophisticated workload management capabilities that help you optimize performance
- DB2 supports a number of virtualization and cloud computing options
IBM and Intel® have collaborated over a decade to optimize DB2 performance with Intel® Parallel Studio 2011, software development suite on Intel® Xeon® processors . We are excited to see a ~10x improvement in query processing performance using DB2 10 over the previous DB2 version, running on IBM System x3850 using Intel® Xeon® Processor E7. Customers can now realize dramatically greater performance boost at lower cost per query running IBM DB2 10 on servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processors.
-- Pauline Nist , GM Software Strategies, Intel Datacenter & Connected Systems Group
