IBM invites CockroachDB to infest its mainframes with PostgreSQL

IBM has signed an OEM agreement with Cockroach Labs – maker of the distributed PostgreSQL-like cloud RDBMS CockroachDB – in a bid to help modernize mission-critical applications reliant on mainframe hardware. The alliance aims to offer a cloud-native PostgreSQL database across hybrid environments, including IBM LinuxONE, Linux …

[TVU]

I am not necessarily sure that this new development will improve the attraction of IBM to potential customers.

[Roland6]

>” While IBM offers a version of Db2 in the cloud, it does not have the same features of … the mainframe Db2 system”

Someone obviously thought they only need to label something DB2…

This suggests IBM are signalling the end of DB2, in which case why not licence the source to CockroachDB potentially permitting them to open source it…

[Homo.Sapien.Floridanus]

Metamorphosis

"One morning, after an agitated meeting, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his cubicle, his DB transformed into a monstrous vermin.”

[QuiteEvilGraham]

Interesting idea. Big (ie. mainframe) Db2 is a very different beast to the iSeries and LUW versions. I've spent many years reconciling the different ways you have to accommodate all three. And why would you take a product called CockroachDB seriously?