IBM launches self-management database

IBM has launched DB2 Universal Database that automatically self-manages and self-tunes databases with key business information, including customer history, product pricing and product availability without the need of human intervention.

The database, code-named Stinger, delivers autonomic computing software that allows organisations to carry out complex jobs seven times faster than they could before whilst reducing administrative costs by 65 percent.

ScotDB Limited, a database design and administration firm, can now deliver a database product that manages itself 90 percent of the time.

According to the Meta Group, this autonomic advantages can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as problem solving, plus monitoring and tuning by up to 80 percent.

It's purpose is to reduce labour-intensive and mundane assignments usually performed by database administrators by freeing them up to work on other project such as application development and design.

Klaas Brant, the CEO of KBCE said: "At KBCE we were impressed by DB2's new and unique autonomic computing features which will save a company time and money. The database has now become self-healing and self-tuning, freeing up valuable DBA time. Routine tasks are now automated and the new advisory software assists DBAs to make the best decisions quickly and safely."

The software learns about changes in the data organisation and adjusts its optimisation strategies according to this.

It also continually updates query statistics about the usage of the database, where information is kept and how it is performing. Searches for information now take seconds instead of days.

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