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IBM DB2 10.5 with

BLU Acceleration
Multi-workload database software for the big data era

In this era of big data, business and IT leaders across all industries are
Highlights looking for ways to easily and cost-effectively unlock the value of
enterprise data that resides in both transactional processing and data
• Dramatically faster reporting warehouse systems. They are trying to quickly implement new solutions
and analytics
to gain additional insight from this data to improve outcomes across
• Upgrade to in-memory speed and all areas of the business, while simultaneously optimizing resource
simplicity on existing infrastructure utilization and reducing costs.
• New level of data compression: clients
have reported compression rates of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows is a multi-workload database
10 times in IBM® DB2® with BLU management solution built for these challenges. Providing new,
Acceleration versus uncompressed
innovative capabilities to meet demanding data processing requirements,
tables.1
DB2 is designed to help ensure that your data systems are fast, always
• Online rolling upgrades designed for available, scalable and flexible—while also supporting a wide variety of
no planned downtime
new mobile, social and analytical applications.
• In DB2 10.5, IBM DB2 pureScale® HADR
is designed to achieve failover in seconds;2 DB2 10.5 includes several capabilities to help organizations tackle the
HADR helps disaster recovery of
challenges presented by big data:
pureScale clusters over distances of
thousands of kilometers.3
• Analytics at the speed of thought, including new BLU Acceleration
• DB2 pureScale provides transparent • Always-available transactions
scalability beyond 100 nodes.4
• Future-proof versatility
• Business-grade NoSQL and IBM Mobile • Unprecedented affordability
Database for greater application flexibility • Streamlined packaging
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Analytics at the speed of thought

The effectiveness and speed of data analytics are often hindered
IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration
by infrastructures that are unable to keep pace with the rate of
data growth and change. DB2 with BLU Acceleration offers a
Runtime
huge step forward in analytic workload processing by
combining proven in-memory and columnar data store Classic
BLU runtime
capabilities with advanced compression and hardware DB2 runtime

exploitation techniques. The result: reliably faster analytic

query processing for a variety of online analytical workloads— Classic DMS BLU DMS
(for non-BLU tables) (for BLU tables)
without the limitations of in-memory-only systems.

Classic DB2 buffer pool

Developed by the IBM Research and Development Labs,
DB2 with BLU Acceleration represents a new generation of
data management. Innovations include: CPUs with SIMD

• Dynamic in-memory columnar processing with dynamic Storage

movement of unused data to storage
• Actionable Compression to preserve order so that the data Classic, row-structured table Compressed, encoded columnar
can be used without decompression C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8

• Parallel vector processing for delivering multi-core and

Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
• Data skipping to bypass unnecessary processing of
irrelevant data

BLU Acceleration adds an extra storage engine and integrated Figure 1: DB2 can now process both row-based and column-based tables
runtime directly into the core DB2 system to support the storage in the same system, resulting in significantly improved performance.

and analysis of column-organized tables. This processing runs

parallel to traditional row-based table processing, enabling DB2
to process both row-based and column-based tables in the same
system (see Figure 1). The potential results include significantly
improved performance, massive storage savings and ease of
implementation and management for both transactional and
analytic data workloads.

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Enable faster processing with parallel

vector processing
In DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration, DB2 helps improve processing efficiency by incorporating the
IBM observed performance improvements latest advances in hardware, such as SIMD, to perform several
tasks in just one instruction. Work can be spread across multiple
ranging from 8 to 25 times for typical
processor cores to greatly accelerate performance, helping
analytic workloads.5 decision makers get the answers they need quickly.

Process data efficiently with data skipping

DB2 eliminates unnecessary processing by automatically
Increase performance, not cost, with dynamic
detecting and skipping large sections of data that do not qualify
in-memory use
for a query. This enables more efficient data processing and
DB2 uses a superior approach to storage management, which
faster performance.
delivers all the benefits of in-memory processing without the
performance penalties that occur in other systems when you run Minimize IT workload with enhanced
out of memory. DB2 uses all the server memory made available ease-of-use features
to it, and extends those resources by using disk arrays and other IBM simplifies the process of extracting value from data while
resources as needed. If a table exceeds allocated memory, for minimizing demands on your IT staff. With DB2 with BLU
example, the system continues processing without the overhead Acceleration, there is no need for building and maintaining
of swapping data between the RAM and storage disks—which indexes, reorganizations or other maintenance tasks that are
provides superior performance. typically associated with traditional data warehouses.

Gain deeper insight with Actionable Compression

Always-available transactions with
The combination of in-memory, columnar and compression
technologies in DB2 help you run faster queries so you can ask enhanced DB2 pureScale reliability
more questions and gain more insight than ever before. As your business grows and workloads increase, the availability
Advanced encoding maximizes compression while preserving and scalability of complex transaction processing can suffer.
the order of encoding so compressed data can be quickly DB2 pureScale technology helps reduce this risk with built-in
analyzed without the overhead of decompression. This results database cluster technology based on IBM DB2 for z/OS® and
in efficient use of the CPU and RAM, as well as reduced I/O— takes advantage of IBM System z® Sysplex expertise. A shared
which translates to faster performance and lower storage costs. disk cluster architecture that runs on both UNIX (IBM AIX®)
and Linux (x86), DB2 pureScale technology enables the
database to scale with no application changes. DB2 pureScale
is always available, helping to ensure that transactional
workloads—including online transactions, queries and other
tasks—continue uninterrupted in the case of planned or
unforeseen downtime.

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DB2 10.5 offers several enhancements that, along with

pureScale technology, help deliver the ultimate in availability
and disaster recovery protection for your mission-critical
Automatic workload
balancing
transactional workloads.
Cluster of
Integrate high availability disaster recovery DB2 nodes
capabilities Leverages the
DB2 pureScale is fully integrated with DB2 high availability global lock and
memory manager
disaster recovery (HADR) functionality. This allows you to
technology from
mirror data from your primary pureScale cluster to a second
DB2 for z/OS
local or remote standby pureScale cluster (see Figure 2). In the
event of failure, the standby cluster will take over in seconds,6
ensuring minimal impact to your business.

Ease manual administration as you scale

Online fix pack updates allow you to perform fix pack
maintenance operations on individual members running in a
pureScale cluster with minimal impact to users. You can also
back up and restore from pureScale to a single server.
Integrated
Protect data while meeting regulatory cluster
compliance mandates manager
Going beyond reliable authentication, authorization and InfiniBand network and
multilevel access control, DB2 provides row and column access DB2 cluster services
control (RCAC) without creating multiple data views to reduce
duplication. RCAC provides easy and flexible control over
data access based on roles and lines of business. Encryption
capabilities protect specific fields if data is accidentally released
or accessed without authorization.

Help reduce the cost and complexity of compliance Shared data

DB2 Time Travel Query functionality provides point-in-time
information, keeping a history of data changes and enabling Figure 2: DB2 offers HADR protection for mission-critical
users to query data as it appeared at different points in time. transactional workloads.
This feature helps to reduce the costs and complexities
associated with maintaining audit trails and meeting regulatory
compliance guidelines.

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Future-proof versatility
In today’s quickly changing business environment, organizations
must ensure that the infrastructure they put in place will not
Mobile Mobile Mobile
DB DB DB
only meet today’s needs, but will also be robust enough to
address the needs of the future. This means selecting open,
flexible solutions. DB2 10.5 includes enhanced features that
help organizations expand and modernize existing applications
as well as easily create new applications to support mobile and
cloud-based environments.

Synchronization between IBM Mobile Database Deliver applications rapidly with NoSQL capabilities
and IBM Mobile Database Sync DB2 offers extreme flexibility for developers by providing two
enterprise-class NoSQL database capabilities—Resource
Description Framework (RDF) Graph and XML—that enable
web and mobile application data to be stored in its native form
IBM Mobile Database Sync in DB2. Support for flexible schemas allows developers to
deliver applications rapidly using existing skills and leverage
the enterprise strengths of DB2: scalability, security, reliable
transaction processing and operational tools.
solidDB
Experience true enterprise mobility
Meeting growing enterprise demand, DB2 provides the key
capabilities needed to support mobile applications. DB2 10.5
includes support for IBM Mobile Database and IBM Mobile
Database Sync (see Figure 3). Together, they enable:
Replication between IBM Mobile Database Sync
and back-end database • Persistent storage on mobile devices to compensate for
inconsistent network connections
• User-based authentication, access rights and encryption to
securely store enterprise data on mobile devices
DB2
• Seamless integration with enterprise data through
bidirectional data synchronization
Figure 3: DB2 provides key capabilities for supporting mobile applications. • Automated application administration with easy installation
and automatic updates
• Application development tools such as Apache Cordova

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Help reduce application migration cost and risk Compression allows DB2 to keep more data in memory,
The DB2 SQL compatibility feature can greatly reduce the thereby avoiding performance-robbing disk I/O. By combining
cost and risk of moving legacy applications built for Oracle compression with multi-temperature data management, DB2
Database to DB2. Applications built to run on Oracle databases provides the ideal set of capabilities for cost-effectively
require few or no code changes to run on DB2, which means optimizing and allocating your data storage environment.
IT staff generally spend less time tuning and adjusting the
database after it is moved to DB2. In fact, DB2 achieves an DB2 Adaptive Compression features further enhances storage
average of 98 percent compatibility with Oracle PL/SQL.7 efficiency by incorporating classic row compression with other
techniques such as table-wide and page-level compression for
DB2 includes extensive native support for the PL/SQL maximum impact. Adaptive Compression has provided 7 times
procedural language as well as new data types, scalar functions, or greater overall space savings for more than one DB2
improved concurrency, built-in packages, Oracle Call Interface customer, with some tables achieving 10 times space savings.8
(OCI), SQL*Plus and more. New enhancements in DB2 10.5
include pipelined table functions and support for row sizes Optimize compute resources with columnar and
greater than 32 KB. encoded data compression
Compute-friendly columnar and encoded data compression
provides massive storage savings, less I/O, better memory
Unprecedented affordability
utilization and more effective use of the CPU.
Businesses with large volumes of data know how expensive
data storage can be. A full range of features enables DB2 to
Testing has shown storage savings of 1.6 times to 2.6 times,
help reduce the costs of managing data by increasing storage
as compared to DB2 10.1 with full compression, using DB2
efficiency, improving performance and simplifying the
with BLU Acceleration,9 and clients have reported compression
administration of both transactional and warehouse databases.
rates of 10 times in DB2 with BLU Acceleration versus
Promote storage and cost-efficiency with deep and uncompressed tables.10
adaptive compression
DB2 can dramatically reduce storage cost with industry-leading
deep compression technologies that compress tables, indexes,
archive logs, temporary space, LOBs, XML and backup data.

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Target infrastructure costs with virtualization Save time with automatic configuration capabilities
For businesses with multiple database servers that fail to utilize DB2 Configuration Advisor can save database administrators
full hardware capacity, the cost-saving benefits of virtualization time by automatically configuring a database for use—setting
are clear: server consolidation, space savings and reduced power the processor speed, the amount of memory that needs to be
and cooling expenses. IBM helps businesses enjoy these savings allocated and the number of users on the system. A related
with flexible licensing terms that allow DB2 to be deployed in a capability, the self-tuning memory manager (STMM),
virtualized environment. simplifies memory configuration by automatically setting values
for several critical parameters during database startup and
Simplify administration with self-healing capabilities runtime. System performance benefits when memory is
DB2 Health Center continually monitors the database, adaptively tuned based on workload requirements.
searching for potential problems. If Health Center discovers an
issue, such as the database running low on memory, it Streamlined packaging and
automatically notifies administrators by email or text message.
hassle-free upgrades
The software also suggests solutions for the problem to help
DB2 offers a simple packaging structure with seven editions
speed resolution.
and an optional DB2 Advanced Recovery feature. Select
DB2 10.5 editions now share a common install image with
previous editions of DB2, so moves between editions can
Deliver the full value of DB2 with updated database be as simple as a license key update. The simplified packaging
management solutions means you have fewer editions to deploy and administer, easy
A comprehensive set of database management solutions entitlement tracking and greater utilization of DB2 functionality.
offers a complete range of capabilities for both developers
and DBAs to help develop, manage and deploy both DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition offers the
transactional and warehouse databases with greater functionality and database management solutions needed
efficiency, performance and availability. To help you for large, complex enterprise environments. It is ideal for
accelerate adoption and enhance the value of key DB2 transactional, analytic and operational analytic workloads.
features, all tools have been updated to support BLU It includes BLU Acceleration, pureScale, DB2 Workload
Acceleration, compression and pureScale capabilities. Management, IBM DB2 Database Partitioning Feature (DPF)
For more information about IBM database management and other advanced capabilities such as change queue-based
solutions for DB2, visit ibm.com/software/data/db2/ replication, change data capture (CDC) replication, IBM
linux-unix-windows/tools or download the IBM e-book: solidDB® and solidDB Universal Cache. It can be deployed
http://ibm.co/YHacub on servers of any size, from one processor to hundreds of
processors, and on both physical and virtual servers.

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DB2 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition is ideal for functionality with DB2 Enterprise Server Edition, but has
medium-size businesses. It includes most of the same processor core and memory restrictions. There is no limit on
functionality and database management solutions as DB2 the cores or memory available to the physical server if the
Advanced Enterprise Server Edition, and can handle restrictions are observed by the virtual servers running DB2.
transactional, analytic and operational analytic workloads. This Therefore, this edition is ideal for consolidating multiple
edition does have processor core, socket, memory and terabyte workloads onto a large physical server running DB2 Workgroup
restrictions, and only supports federation between DB2 and Server Edition on multiple virtual servers.
IBM Informix® data sources.
Please note that DB2 Workgroup Server Edition no longer
DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is designed to meet the contains the pureScale capability. Existing customers can
needs of medium-to-large businesses and is ideal for upgrade their entitlements to restricted DB2 Advanced
transactional and operational analytic workloads. It has no Workgroup Server entitlements so they may continue to use
memory, terabyte, socket or core limits and can be deployed pureScale functionality.
on servers of any size, as well as on both physical and virtual
servers. It does not include BLU Acceleration, pureScale or DB2 Express Edition provides a full-function transactional
DPF deployment modes, but does include some advanced data server with entry-level pricing that is ideal for small
database capabilities such as connection concentrator, and medium businesses (SMBs). This edition includes
materialized query tables (MQTs), multidimensional security and HADR features and can be deployed in x64 server
clustering (MDC), multi-temperature data management, environments. It is restricted to eight processor cores and 8 GB
query parallelism, scan sharing and table partitioning. of memory per physical or, where partitioned, virtual server.
Because there is no limit on the cores or memory available
DB2 Workgroup Server Edition is for transactional database to the physical server, it is ideal for consolidating multiple
workloads in a departmental, workgroup or medium-size workloads onto a large physical server while running on
business environment. This edition shares significant multiple virtual servers.

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DB2 Express-C Edition is a no-charge, entry-level data In addition, multiple compatible database management
server edition that is designed for the developer and partner solutions are included in DB2 Developer, DB2 Advanced
community. It includes self-management features and many Workgroup Server and DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server and
of the core database capabilities such as Time Travel Query. are available as a for-purchase add-on with other editions:
The main difference between this edition and the production
editions is that you cannot cluster together servers for high • InfoSphere Data Architect: Provides a collaborative data
availability. Solutions developed using DB2 Express-C can be design solution to discover, model, visualize, relate and
deployed on more scalable DB2 editions without modifications standardize diverse and distributed data assets; limited
to the application code. to 10 users.
• InfoSphere Optim Configuration Manager: Offers
DB2 Developer Edition is a comprehensive package that centralized management of database and client
includes all of the DB2 capabilities for a single application configurations.
developer to design, build, test and prototype applications for • InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager Extended
deployment on any of the DB2 client or server platforms. It Edition: Helps DBAs and IT staff manage performance
requires a separate license for each developer and cannot be proactively and prevent problems before they impact
used in production systems. the business.
• InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner: Provides
DB2 Advanced Recovery Solution is a software bundle that expert recommendations to help improve the performance of
includes IBM DB2 Merge Backup for Linux, UNIX and query workloads.
Windows V2.1, IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for Linux, UNIX • InfoSphere Optim pureQuery® Runtime: Provides a data
and Windows V4.1 and IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ High access platform that enables improved performance, security
Performance Unload for DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows and manageability of database client applications.
V5.1. It helps to improve data availability, mitigate risks and • IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Design Studio: Provides a
accelerate crucial administrative tasks. DB2 Advanced Recovery graphical user interface to design, model, reverse-engineer
is available as a separate purchase and can be used with all DB2 and validate physical database schemas.
Editions except DB2 Express-C. • IBM Warehouse SQL Warehousing Tool (SQW):
Generates SQL for warehouse maintenance and
administration. SQW is part of Design Studio.
• Warehouse mining and text analytics: Helps business users
work with current data and deliver analytics in real time to
quickly discover revenue opportunities.
• Warehouse cubing services: Provides multidimensional
data analysis without extracting data from the warehouse.
• IBM Cognos® BI 10.2 (five users): Enables users to access
and analyze the information they need to make the decisions
that lead to better business outcomes.

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Advanced DB2 10.5 capabilities

Feature Description/Function

In-memory hybrid column-organized table technology that offers a significant speed

BLU Acceleration
advantage for analytical queries that must scan through large sets of data.

Helps reduce storage needs and increase performance using multiple techniques,
Compression including table and index compression with page-level compression and DB2 with BLU
Acceleration with advanced encoding, to maximize compression of columnar tables.

Loads data continuously from multiple sources throughout the organization to support
Continuous data ingest
faster decision making.

Enables massive parallel processing by transparently splitting the database across

IBM Data Partitioning Feature (DPF) multiple partitions and using the power of multiple servers to satisfy requests for large
amounts of information.

Accesses DB2 data that resides on DB2 for IBM i5/OS™, IBM zVM®, IBM zVSE® and
IBM DB2 Connect™
z/OS operating systems.

DB2 pureScale Transparently delivers high availability and exceptional scalability to applications.

Enables fine-grain resource allocation, monitoring and management of workloads based

DB2 Workload Management
on service classes, workload characteristics, elapsed time, time of day and more.

Improves the performance of complex queries with the pre-computed results of the
Materialized query tables (MQTs)
whole or parts of queries in MQTs.

MQ replication/CDC Replicates large volumes of data at very low levels of latency.

Helps maximize performance and reduce overall media costs with automated storage
Multi-temperature data management
tiering and the ability to transfer data in real time between different types of drives.

Synchronizes data between the mobile database and a back-end database. Data
IBM solidDB and solidDB Universal Cache between the solidDB server and the back-end database is synchronized using the
Universal Cache feature.

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For more information

To learn more about the capabilities of each DB2 10.5 for 1
Client-reported testing results in DB2 10.5 early release program.
Linux, UNIX and Windows edition, please contact your Individual results will vary depending on individual workloads,
configurations and conditions, including table size and content.
IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit:
ibm.com/db2/luw/ 2
Based on IBM design for normal operation under typical workload using
HADR and pureScale clusters. Individual results will vary depending on
individual workloads, configurations and conditions, network availability
and bandwidth.
3
Based on IBM design for normal operation under typical workload.
Individual results will vary depending on individual workloads,
configurations and conditions, network availability and bandwidth.
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Available with DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition.
5
Based on internal IBM testing of sample analytic workloads (not
including transactional or OLAP workloads) comparing queries
accessing row-based tables on DB2 10.1 vs. columnar tables on DB2
10.5. Performance improvement figures are cumulative of all queries in
the workload. Individual results will vary depending on individual
workloads, configurations and conditions.
6
Based on IBM design for normal operation under typical workload using
HADR and pureScale clusters. Individual results will vary depending on
individual workloads, configurations and conditions, network availability
and bandwidth.
7
Based on internal tests and reported client experience from 28 Sep 2011
to 07 Mar 2012.
8
Based on client testing in the DB2 10 Early Access Program.
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Based on IBM internal testing and reported beta client testing.
Individual results will vary depending on individual workloads,
configurations and conditions, including table size and content.
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Client-reported testing results in DB2 10.5 early release program.
Individual results will vary depending on individual workloads,
configurations and conditions, including table size and content.

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