IBM Db2 V11.5 - Editions and Licenses Overview

Changes to the Db2 portfolio 2019/2020

Db2 11.5 is offered primarily in three editions:

• Db2 Advanced Edition
• Db2 Standard Edition
• Db2 Lite Edition / Db2 Community Edition

With the exception of the IBM Db2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition, all previous editions will be transferred to these three models.

Only two license models are still available for the new editions:

• The basic metric for all editions is the Virtual Processor Core Model (VPC).
• For use in non-productive environments (development and test systems)
  the Authorized User (AU) model is also available.
  (Notes on Db2 V11.5 Virtual Processor Core or Authorized User Licensing below).

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IBM Db2 V11 Product Lines and Editions

At a glance:

A hybrid database software for the always available, mission-critical transactional, analytical, and mixed workload applications with end-to-end security that protects data at rest or in-flight.

A simple to deploy, upgrade, and maintain database with continuous availability for transactional workloads of any size.

Expanded in-memory columnar technology that offers the ultimate scalability and performance for analytics and warehousing workloads.

Overview

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows is the transformation data platform for transactional and analytical workloads in the era of digital, cloud, and cognitive. It provides continuous availability of data to keep transactional and analytics operations at maximum efficiency. It ensures that access to data is not impacted by any planned or unplanned downtime. DB2 11.1 scales to new heights of performance by enabling its BLU Acceleration(R) capability to be deployed across a massively parallel processing (MPP) network cluster architecture to improve response time. In addition, DB2 11.1 enhances the simplicity of pureScale(R) deployments for transactional workloads and the administration of pureScale clusters. The native encryption feature is also enhanced to support the industry ISKLM standard for key management across the organization.