IBM DB2 BLU Acceleration with SAP BW on IBM Power Systems

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BLU Acceleration is a new technology that has been developed by IBM® and integrated
directly into the IBM DB2® engine. BLU Acceleration is a new storage engine along with
integrated run time (directly into the core DB2 engine) to support the storage and analysis of
column-organized tables. The BLU Acceleration processing is parallel to the regular,
row-based table processing found in the DB2 engine. This is not a bolt-on technology nor is it
a separate analytic engine that sits outside of DB2. Much like when IBM added XML data as
a first class object within the database along with all the storage and processing
enhancements that came with XML, now IBM has added column-organized tables directly
into the storage and processing engine of DB2.