IBM Announces New Big Data Capabilities
ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 3 — Just a year after bringing the in-memory database software DB2 with BLU Acceleration to market, IBM has announced enhanced capabilities that make it simpler, more economical, and dramatically faster to analyze massive amounts of data, even if the data resides in a transactional system rather than a data warehouse. The performance of analytical queries can also improve by 10 times or more, with equal or greater transactional performance.
As organizations continue to face unprecedented pressure to analyze much more data at faster speeds and lower costs, there is an increased business need to run real-time analytics directly on operational data without slowing the rest of the transactional system. In addition, organizations want to simplify their infrastructure by having operational reporting and transactions in a single data management platform to support business critical workloads with high availability, reliability and resiliency.
IBM’s new DB2 capabilities deliver analytics at the speed of thought and include a range of innovations including BLU Acceleration, IBM’s in-memory technology that loads terabytes of data in memory and streamlines query workloads 1,000 times faster than other leading databases. Business users can also perform real-time analytics on Big Data and transactional data in the same operational system using “Shadow tables,” eliminating the need to maintain one database for transactional workloads and another for analytical workloads.
The new DB2 with BLU Acceleration capabilities:
- Allow a user to perform real-time analytics directly in the transactional data in real-time without any impact on the performance of transactions.
- Change the economics of high availability by supporting a very broad range of choices for hardware such as small clusters, geographically dispersed configurations, and low-volume transaction processing solutions.
- Provide full support for the SAP business suite giving customers a solid, low cost, and next generation in-memory alternative that complements their existing technology investments.
“The new DB2 capabilities will allow us to leverage our on-line transaction databases for analytics. Reporting on our data is critical and Shadow Tables will allow us to do that all in one database, on one system. With DB2 handling all the heavy lifting, we can get valuable information from our data faster, with less effort,” said Mike Petkau, Director of Database Architecture and Administration at TMW Systems, Inc.
“When the business demands answers, it simply can’t handle the latency of moving data around to get the answers it needs at that moment,” said Sean Poulley, Database and Data Warehouse VP, IBM Information Management. “Our clients and partners are telling us that DB2 with BLU Acceleration and our latest enhancements today give them a simple way to solve this very real business problem for them, helping to provide competitive differentiation and drive growth.”
In addition, clients running SAP environments will get a solid, low cost, and next generation in-memory alternative that complements their existing technology investments. SAP Business Warehouse clients can adopt next generation in-memory technology with outstanding performance with no disruption. There’s no need to purchase new hardware or upgrade their application.
The breakthrough speed and simplicity of BLU Acceleration is a complement to the existing transactional performance leadership of DB2 on Power Systems. DB2 takes advantage of Power System’s industry leading multi-threading, cache size and memory bandwidth to deliver top speed and processing efficiency for both transactional and analytical workloads.