Chapter 1. Introduction to the ESS, DB2 UDB and AIX 5
uniprocessors to the largest SMP's. Ideal for midsize to large businesses and departments
particularly where Internet and/or enterprise connectivity is important.
DB2 Universal Database Enterprise-Extended Edition (EEE) provides a high performance
mechanism to support large databases and offer greater scalability in Massively Parallel
Processors (MPP's) or clustered servers. Ideal for applications requiring parallel
processing, particularly data warehousing and data mining
All versions of the DB2 UDB work with the ESS. This redbook focuses on the EE and EEE
packages.
1.2.2 The universal database
DB2 UDB is truly the universal database supporting a wide variety of platforms and
applications. ...