IBM Breaks Double Digit Performance Barrier With 10 Million Transactions Per Minute

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 46 views

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage broke all previous records and topped the 10 million transactions per minute mark using the industry standard TPC performance benchmark, easily besting all results previously achieved by competitors such as HP and Oracle.

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Are All Database Engines Just Flavors of the Same Thing?

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 145 views

Because DB2 is so focused on very large databases, fewer people know how to work with it. Part of the price of using DB2 is needing to look harder for the right people to help you set it up and use it. READ MORE

Where’s my data?

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 379 views

This mainframe database pilot fish doesn’t have to deal much with dumbness from users. But application programmers? That’s a different matter. The problem? …

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