Presenting Microsoft Azure’s IBM Db2 pureScale.
IBM Db2 pureScale
Continuous availability at scale is necessary for mission-critical applications. With IBM Db2 pureScale, you can achieve high performance and avoid unexpected downtime with best-in-class failure detection and recovery. Using the IBM Db2 parallel sysplex architecture, Db2 pureScale offers mainframe-class continuous availability that is available whenever and wherever you need it.
By enabling shared cluster scale out, Db2 pureScale lets you start with a small cluster and expand your workloads as much or as little as you want. IBM Db2 pureScale eliminates the need for performance adjustment, data redistribution, and application modifications. By automatically distributing the load across all active members, you may increase application transparency. Always use resources as efficiently as possible to minimize application response times and lower the risk and expense of application modifications. Start managing less and building more.
Overview of IBM Db2 pureScale
With its exceptional capacity and application transparency, the IBM Db2 pureScale environment may assist lower the risk and expense of expanding your distributed database system. The Db2 pureScale environment can surpass even the most stringent industry standards and is built for continuous availability.
Does your distributed database system need you to modify your applications or the way data is distributed as workloads increase? Your system does not scale transparently if such is the case. Simple application modifications might jeopardize system availability and result in time and cost consequences. The stakes are always high since every second that is lost in system availability can directly affect your bottom line, client retention, and service level agreement compliance.
The Db2 pureScale Feature makes it easy to scale your database system. Incoming database requests are processed by a number of database servers, referred to as members; these members exchange data and function as a clustered system. To grow up and satisfy even the most exacting business requirements, you may openly add new members. There is no need to modify the program, redistribute data, or adjust performance.
The Db2 pureScale Feature expands upon well-known and tested design elements from Db2 for z/OS database software to produce a system that can achieve extraordinary levels of database availability. The Db2 pureScale Feature can handle the most demanding needs for high fault tolerance and continue to execute database queries even in the most dire situations by combining a number of cutting-edge hardware and software technologies.
IBM announced that IBM Db2 pureScale has launched on Microsoft Azure, offering cloud-based database solutions a new degree of enterprise-class performance, scalability, and availability.
Businesses in today’s data-driven world want databases that can easily expand to accommodate enormous transaction volumes and offer high availability without sacrificing performance. These requirements are met by IBM Db2 pureScale on Azure, which is the best option for mission-critical workloads, cloud-native apps, and hybrid cloud settings because to its autonomous scalability, high availability, and unparalleled dependability.
IBM Db2 pureScale on Azure: Why select it?
Using the IBM Db2 parallel sysplex architecture, Db2 pureScale is a highly robust transactional database system that offers mainframe-class continuous availability wherever it operates. Because Db2 pureScale was created for situations that need constant uptime and data integrity, companies can operate their most demanding applications without worrying about downtime or performance problems. Key characteristics are listed below:
- Extreme capacity: Scale with excellent predictability and near-linear efficiency. Use pre-configured T-shirt sizes to deploy and setup a Db2 pureScale instance on Azure in a fully automated and quick (in a matter of minutes) manner. To scale up from the most basic highly available configuration to the highest supported configuration, which offers extraordinary processing capability, you can begin with a small pureScale cluster and add members to your database environment as needed.
- Constant accessibility: The IBM Db2 pureScale feature is made to execute incoming database queries without interruption during scheduled system maintenance or in the event of an emergency, as when several components fail at once.
- Application transparency: By automatically distributing load across all active members, IBM Db2 pureScale offers application transparency. Always use resources as efficiently as possible to minimize application response times and lower the risk and expense of application modifications.
IBM Db2 pureScale use cases
PureScale use cases include:
- Lower expenses while increasing operational effectiveness: A one-click automated deployment using the Azure ARM template may spin up a Db2 pureScale instance on Azure in less than 35 minutes. When finished, the pureScale instance is prepared for application validations and data loading. The time to production may actually be shortened by setting up many concurrent clusters and validating applications, all for a fraction of the price of the conventional on-premises situation.
- Redeployment Made Simpler: Redeployment is as easy as clicking a button using Azure’s pureScale feature, and a new, bigger cluster will be available in a matter of minutes. The databases can be readily restored to the new cluster if they were frequently backed up to BLOB. Destroying the out-of-commission cluster on Azure is the same as deleting every Azure virtual machine instance from the interface with a few button clicks. In contrast to on-premises, Db2 does not require instance dropping or deinstallation.
- Transferable skills: The Azure cluster looks and feels the same as the on-premises Db2 pureScale cluster for experienced users. Instance and database monitoring, host maintenance, cluster administration, online software upgrades, performance tweaking, problem identification and troubleshooting methods, and more are all transferable.
