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IBM released DB2 9 last week, previously codenamed “Viper.” It took the IBM team 5 years to develop, 750 engineers, and 68 patent filings. DB2 9 is radially different than the current database models available, which are primarily based on relational data, pioneered by Boyce-Codd (i.e., Boyce-Codd Normal Form, or BCNF). DB2 9 was built to handle both relational data and unstructured data in the form of XML.
In their own words, IBM promises the following with the release of DB2 9:
- Unlocks the latent potential of XML with performance and development time/cost savings from pureXML®
- Reduce data storage requirements by up to 80% & improve overall system performance
- Simplify deployment, improve performance and minimize administration of SAP deployments
- Reduce administrative costs with adaptive memory management and automatic storage management
- Reduces risk of unauthorized access with an innovative label based security model
- Maximizes data availability by reducing planned and unplanned downtime
- Improve developer productivity with new Developer’s Workbench
I’ve played around a little bit on the XML examples located here. I’m very impressed with what I see so far.
Here’s a link to a video example.
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