Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Plug: new offering for DB2 Express-C users


Thanks to Boris, I found that due to popular demand, those using DB2 Express-C can now also purchase a low cost commercial support option for the database and get additional DB2 modules. With the support purchase, users also get DB2 Express-C High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) and SQL Replication.

One thing I hear often as an initial reaction to Express-C is “yeah but DB2 is so bloated, I don’t need all that” … well couldn’t be further from reality. Express-C v9 is very light weight, high performant and is similar in features to a MySQL product (although many will say after evaluation DB2 Express-C offers more). Express-C is the EXACT same core codebase for the modular DB2 database that banks running DB2 for mission critical applications are using. What they’ve done is taken out modules. So with various levels of DB2, you get access to more modules. Try it out, heck it doesn’t cost you anything.

Posted by md on May 8th, 2007 | Filed in IBM, Linux, Open Standards | 1 Comment »


One Response to “Plug: new offering for DB2 Express-C users”

  1. December 26th, 2007 at 5:28 pm

    John doe said:

    DB2 Express-C is currently eating > 200MB of RAM, and all I did was boot my computer, I haven’t even started doing anything yet. Given that mysql / postgres start up at < 50MB, I would still call DB2 Express-C bloated.



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