What is a DB2 database?

With the rise of DB2, many users of other databases, such as oracle, have switched to DB2. So what are the advantages and attractiveness of the DB2 database? This article will help you answer your questions.

DB2 is a product of IBM. It supports various operating platforms from PC to UNIX, from minicomputers to mainframes, from IBM to non-IBMHP and sun unix systems. It can run independently on the host using the Master/Slave method and in the client/server environment. Services
The platform can be OS/400, AIX, OS/2, HP-UNIX, SUN-Solaris and other operating systems, the client platform can be OS/2 or Windows, Dos, AIX, HP-UX, SUN Solaris and other operating systems.

Database Server

The core of the DB2 database is also called the DB2 public server. It rejects the multi-process, multi-clue architecture and can run on multiple operating systems. It also makes adjustments and optimizations based on the corresponding platform environment, in order to achieve better performance.

DB2 core database features:

1) Support for Object-Oriented Programming

DB2 supports complicated data structures, such as non-structured text objects, which can search for unstructured text objects such as Boolean matching, closest matching and arbitrary matching. Allows you to create user data types and user-defined functions.

2) support for Multimedia Applications

DB2 supports large binary objects BLOB), and promises to Access Binary large objects and text large objects in the database. Binary large objects can be used to store multimedia objects.

3) backup and recovery capabilities

4) supports storage history and triggers. Users can define complicated and complete rules when creating tables.

5) support for silicon SQL queries

6) support heterogeneous Distributed Database Access

7) supports data replication