Databases & Operating Systems — LibrePower

Open Source
Stack

The databases, operating systems, and tools that power LibrePower on IBM Power Systems.

The Stack

Databases & Operating Systems

The foundation of enterprise infrastructure on IBM Power Systems.

Relational DB for Power

High-performance MySQL fork with enterprise features. Native ppc64le builds optimized for AIX and Linux on Power.

ACID transactions & InnoDB

High availability & replication

Full SQL compliance

AIX ppc64le Linux MySQL Compatible

Open source tooling on AIX

IBM's enterprise Unix with the LibrePower AIX repository. Modern CLI tools and package management via DNF.

DNF package manager

Modern CLI utilities

Enterprise-grade stability

Unix RPM Packages POWER7+

Linux on ppc64le

Full Linux distribution support on Power architecture. Ubuntu, RHEL, and SLES with native container runtime.

Ubuntu, RHEL, SLES distros

Native container support

Cloud-native orchestration

ppc64le Containers Kubernetes

We're porting new packages weekly. Request a package or contribute your own to LibrePower AIX.

LibrePower — Open Source for IBM Power Systems