As enterprises amass large warehouses of transactional data, they have increasingly sought to analyze that data for trends and exceptions that will provide insights leading to profitable and actionable business decisions. DB2 with BLU acceleration deeply integrates innovative new techniques for defining and processing column-organized tables that speed read-mostly business intelligence queries by 10 to 50 times and improve compression by 3 to 10 times, compared to traditional row-organized tables, without the complexity of defining indexes or materialized views on those tables. But DB2 BLU is much more than just a column store.