DB2 Senior Consultant Wang Fei Peng: Dual supplier trend-products and technology

Recently, on the database related issues, IBM DB2 Migration Star Contest judges, DB2 senior consultant Wang Fei Peng received a reporter's interview.

Wang Feipeng that in the past 20 years, the number of large database products manufacturers less and more, now in Oracle and IBM two strong Hegemony era. IBM and Oracle not only have more and more similar product lines, but are also improving the speed of hardware and software integration. The benefits of consolidation for users are the maximization of efficiency, in particular, software, hardware, the application of vertical integration can be more efficient to play to the extreme, but such integration will bind users to a certain manufacturer, a platform, once the user is bound may not be free and flexible control of their own system. In recent years, more and more enterprises have realized that "can't put eggs in a basket", can not bind the core business to a supplier and its products and services, the dual suppliers become a http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/10566.html "> Industry trend."

Technically, as IBM's most important data management software, DB2 is constantly changing. Starting with DB2 V9.7, DB2 introduced Oracle compatibility features. With Oracle compatibility features, DB2 provides the same concurrency, interaction, and development patterns as Oracle. This has greatly reduced the Oracle database migration cycle and greatly reduced migration costs. To meet the needs of the market, in May 2011, IBM in China set up a Database Migration Consulting service Center, to provide customers with safe, efficient migration services.

The DB2 database is the most well-known and successful product on the IBM Data Management product line, and is suitable for a wide range of open platforms in addition to its large host environment. The DB2 has numerous versions on the open platform, providing support for versions of the Data Warehouse (ISW), in addition to those for OLTP Express, workgroup, and Enterprise. This version focuses on mixed workloads (OLTP and OLAP) and business intelligence implementations, including some features of business intelligence, such as ETL, data mining, OLAP acceleration, and more.

Wang Feipeng says that in the long run, database practitioners are very promising, and as the database market changes, only one database product is mastered, the occupational risk factor will rise. Enterprises need more skilled personnel, DBAs need to manage Oracle, DB2, and many other databases. This IBM DB2 Migration Star Contest is a great opportunity for DBAs to get cutting-edge information management technology and ideas.