| IBM DB2 Life Sciences Data
Connect enables a DB2 federated system to integrate genetic,
chemical, biological, and other research data from distributed
sources. DB2 Life Sciences Data Connect supports the integrated
and virtualized characterisitcs of an 'on demand' computing
environment.
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demand. A DB2 federated system is a distributed computing
system that consists of a DB2 Universal Database (UDB) Version
7 server and multiple data sources from which the DB2 UDB
server retrieves data. Applications can use SQL statements
to query, retrieve, and join data that can be located in
several heterogeneous data sources, such as relation databases
from IBM, Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft, and non-relational
data sources, such as table-structured files.
DB2 Life Sciences Data Connect
is part of IBM Life Sciences Solutions DiscoveryLink offering
which includes DB2 Life Sciences Data Connect, DB2 Relational
Connect, DB2 Connect, and DB2 UDB V7.2. |