IBM Database Has Long Fangs
IBM Database Has Long Fangs
June 11th, 2006: Claiming a major generational leap and promising significant time and cost savings, IBM has released its new data server DB2 Version 9, codenamed ‘Viper’.
IBM is comparing this DB2 release to the invention of the SQL relational database, saying that its patented pureXML technology is a fundamental shift in the way XML data is stored and managed.
The company says that pureXML is a “radical departure from storing XML as an object or shredding xml data to a relational table” as it handles XML as a new data type stored in its natural hierarchy. This allows the management of both conventional relational data and pure XML data, a feature unique to DB2 9 that IBM says dramatically reduces the complexity and time a developer spends creating applications.
IBM is also claiming another breakthrough with DB2 9 in the form of storage compression technology. With a new row-based approach for compressing data objects, it says the results are significant reductions in disk space as well as I/O and memory savings.
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