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Chapter 3. DB2 UDB ESE technical
overview
This chapter provides an introduction to DB2 Universal Database Enterprise
Server Edition (DB2 UDB ESE). DB2 UDB ESE is available on Windows® and
major UNIX® platforms, such as AIX®, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux. DB2 has
considerable strengths in scalability, performance, availability, and in support of
Internet architecture.
Scalability and high availability
DB2 UDB ESE allows processing of complex SQL statements on very large data
sets. It has different approaches to high-end scalability and provides two classes
of parallelism. On single servers, intra-par ...