Note that dashDB has been rebranded to Db2 Warehouse on Cloud and Db2 on Cloud. Some links below may be outdated. I have not updated them yet.
Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is a Data-Warehouse-as-a-Service (DWaaS) offering by IBM, available on IBM Bluemix. It offers database storage with in-memory analytics, replication from the JSON/NoSQL DBMS Cloudant, and tools for analyzing the data. I am going to collect some related links here.
- The official dashDB website is http://dashdb.com
- A product page at the IBM website is http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/dashdb/what-is.html
- dashDB in the IBM Knowledge Center http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6NHC/com.ibm.swg.im.dashdb.kc.doc/welcome.html
- Documentation for dashDB on Bluemix is available at https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/#services/dashDB/index.html
- Samples for different programming languages https://hub.jazz.net/project/ibmdatabase/dashDB/overview
- I have discussed dashDB and its predecessor, the IBM Analytics Warehouse, in my blog. Some entries are:
- How to use dashDB with R http://blog.4loeser.net/2014/09/what-plot-db2-r-and-bluemix-help-with.html
- How to setup dashDB and connect local tools: http://blog.4loeser.net/2014/08/setting-up-and-using-db2-in-memory.html
- A quick look at dashDB and a happy SQuirreL http://blog.4loeser.net/2014/11/a-quick-look-at-dashdb-and-happy.html
- Sam Lightstone has written a blog entry about dashDB with background information and screenshots: http://softwaretradecraft.com/ibm-dashdb-is-here-keeping-data-warehouse-infrastructure-out-of-your-way/
- dashDB is here, and this changes everything for data warehousing on the cloud http://ibmdatawarehousing.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/warehouse-as-a-service-nancy/
- Bringing cloud-based modernization to data warehousing and analytics http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/bringing-cloud-based-modernization-data-warehousing-and-analytics
- Transforming the agile data warehouse in the age of the in-memory cloud http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/transforming-agile-data-warehouse-age-memory-cloud
- An introduction can also be found on Slideshare: http://de.slideshare.net/cindyrussell129357/learn-more-about-dashdb-data-warehousing-and-analytics-power-at-your-fingertips-in-the-cloud
- There is also a dashDB video on Youtube: http://youtu.be/C9RZQzMwdOM
- Podcast: Data warehousing and analytics on the cloud http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/podcast/data-warehousing-and-analytics-cloud