Why DB2 Express-C?
DB2 Express-C™ is the free version of one of the most advanced database management systems in the world. Why pay when you can have all you need for free? DB2 Express-C is free to develop, deploy and distribute. It is a fast, secure, reliable, and amazingly scalable dataserver, ideal for most startups and small/medium sized businesses. DB2 Express-C 9.5 is available on Linux, Unix and Windows (and run well with virtualization on Mac OS X). It also enables developers to easily handle XML through the native storage technology called pureXML™. Whether you develop in Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, Perl or pretty much any other programming language out there, DB2 can be your technological advantage.
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DB2 Express-C is not a crippled version of DB2. Au contraire, DB2 Express-C shares the same code as the other commercial editions and it has a very generous license, which doesn't impose limits on your database. This means that on your server it can take advantage of:
- Up to 4 Cores (2 CPUs)
- Up to 2 Giga Bytes of RAM
- No Database size limits
- No connection limits
- No user limits or any other limits
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Way above the competition
| FEATURE | DB2 Express-C | SQL Server 2005 Express | Oracle 10g Express Edition |
| CPUs | 2 (Up to 4 Cores) | 1 | 1 |
| RAM | 2 Giga | 1 Giga | 1 Giga |
| DB Size | No limit | 4 Giga | 4 Giga |