IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux scales with the FinTime ...

February 2005



IBM DB2 Universal Database for
Linux scales with the FinTime
benchmark in a customer
environment

DB2 UDB for Linux proves its scalability and
flexibility





Boris Bialek
IBM Toronto Lab

DB2 UDB for Linux and the FinTime benchmark - 1 -
1. Overview

IBM® DB2® Universal Database™ (DB2 UDB) is the acknowledged leader for
1Linux* technology in database deployments. The highly scalable DB2 clustering
technology has been renowned for its performance since its introduction in 1996.
As of DB2 UDB Version 8.1, the Enterprise Extended Edition clustered offering
became the Enterprise Server Edition with the Distributed Partitioning Feature,
which merges the clustered and non-clustered database software into a single
entity. For DB2 Universal Database servers, a single SMP database is nothing
more than a special case of a cluster. The SMP database is technically a cluster
of one node and can grow from a single node to a 1000-node ultimate
performance cluster environment. For a Linux environment, the DB2 clustering
solution has been formalized into the DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment (DB2
ICE).
Many IBM customers deploy DB2 ICE solutions today, but the specific DB2 ICE
environment described in this paper is a textbook example. Although it was “only”
a benchmark, the DB2 ICE environment was executed as if it were a live
environment – otherwise, a cluster of 64 nodes and 4 standby nodes on IBM ...