DB2 UDB Server Products

DB2 UDB server products provide a relational database engine for storing, maintaining, and accessing data. We will focus on understanding the main capabilities and goals of each server product, and understand how they would be used in a solution.

In this section, you will be introduced to the DB2 UDB Server family of products, shown in Figure 1.2. DB2 has the capability to store all kinds of electronic information. This includes traditional relational data as well as structured and unstructured binary information, documents and text in many languages, graphics, images, multimedia (audio and video), and information specific to operations, such as engineering drawings, maps, insurance claims forms, numerical control streams, ...

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