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About IBM Db2 Big SQL
A hybrid SQL-on-Hadoop engine delivering advanced, security-rich data query across enterprise big data sources, including Hadoop, object storage and data warehouses. IBM Db2 Big SQL is an enterprise-grade, hybrid ANSI-compliant SQL-on-Hadoop engine, delivering massively parallel processing (MPP) and advanced data query. Db2 Big SQL offers a single database connection or query for disparate sources such as Hadoop HDFS and WebHDFS, RDMS, NoSQL databases, and object stores. Benefit from low latency, high performance, data security, SQL compatibility, and federation capabilities to do ad hoc and complex queries. Db2 Big SQL is now available in 2 variations. It can be integrated with Cloudera Data Platform, or accessed as a cloud-native service on the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform. Access and analyze data and perform queries on batch and real-time data across sources, like Hadoop, object stores and data warehouses.
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