m204 and db2

eclipseandlight · #1 (**permalink**) 08-20-11, 11:50

Hello,I want to know the major difference between DB2 and m204 since I am not familiar with them just know they are IBM product.thanks.

skchandra · #2 (**permalink**) 08-20-11, 13:22

M204 (Model 204) is a high volume OLTP database for IBM mainframes from Rocket Software.
Rocket Model 204 Overview | Rocket Software

DB2 is a database caters both OLTP and OLAP workloads for both mainframe and distributed environment from IBM.
IBM - DB2 database software

Marcus_A · #3 (**permalink**) 08-20-11, 16:03

I haven't worked with M204 for over 25 years. At that time it was an inverted list database (similar to Adabas). I suppose the have probably added a SQL front end on it since then, but I doubt if it is really relational like DB2.

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