DB2 is a family of relational database management system (
RDBMS) products from IBM that serve a number of different
operating system platforms. According to IBM, DB2 leads in terms of database market share and performance. Although DB2 products are offered for
UNIX-based systems and personal computer operating systems, DB2 trails
Oracle's database products in UNIX-based systems and Microsoft's Access in Windows systems.
In addition
to its offerings for the mainframe OS/390 and VM operating systems and its mid-range AS/400 systems, IBM offers DB2 products for a cross-platform spectrum that includes UNIX-based Linux, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, and SCO UnixWare; and for its personal computer OS/2 operating system as well as for Microsoft's Windows 2000 and earlier systems. DB2 databases can be accessed from any application program by using Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface, the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) interface, or a CORBA interface broker.
Contributor(s): Elizabeth Holland Kern and Isaac Yassin
This was last updated in September 1999
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