Db2 limited use license

This is the quickest and easiest way to get a database up where you can play with Db2 or Db2 SQL, without having to know much at all about Db2. Also entirely free for use in both production and non-production environments is Db2 Community Edition. This is what Express-C and Developer-C have morphed into. Db2 Community edition includes all of the fancy features of Db2, with certain hardware restrictions, and no support. In this case, the limitations are currently 4 cores, 16 GB of memory, and GB of storage per database.

Note that is per database and not per partition, so you cannot use partitioning to get around the data limit. The community edition comes both as regular install packages, and also as a pre-formed docker image. The docker image is the second fastest way to get something up to play with. Unlike Express-C, you can apply fix packs without problems. IBM has stumbled a few times in trying to enforce the data limit, so there may be some odd problems trying to restore other databases in to community edition.

There are workarounds — ask on reddit or twitter or stack overflow if you need help with such issues. If you need to really install Db2 on some beefier hardware for a proof of concept, you can download any fix pack image requires a free IBM ID , and install from that code.

That license is good for 90 days. When that 90 days expires, Db2 will stop working, so be sure you apply some longer-term license before it does. The restriction again comes in hardware. The restrictions are 16 virtual processor cores and GB of instance memory. These limits apply per server, but are also maximums for an entire pureScale or DPF cluster.

This is great because at a similar cost to the old WSE, we can now use compression, WLM and all the other nifty advanced features. This is a fully supported edition of Db2 — you can call in and get support when you run into a serious issue. You pay on a per-core basis, but instead of PVU calculations that depend on what processors are in use, they are Virtual Processor Cores.

This is a much more cloud-friendly metric. Db2 is quite easy to run in a cloud environment with no silly restrictions on licensing any core the database server could run on like some other vendors out there.

I believe both monthly and perpetual licensing models are available. This is now the unlimited hardware version of Db2. You buy the points, and then the points buy the Db2 edition. The old feature matrix that so many of us got to know so well is nearly obsolete, but if you want proof of inclusion of a specific feature, it is still available in the IBM Db2 Knowledge Center. Note specifically that heterogenous federation is now included.

However, Q-replication and CDC replication are now excluded across the board. Heterogenous SQL replication remains included with every Db2 product. They have changed this — there is no data size limitation now — just the CPU and memory limits, and the inability to get support from IBM on it. Your email address will not be published. One user can install DBeaver with this license on a few workstations if they are used by this user only. User can run DBeaver with this license in offline mode or behind a corporate firewall.

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