Db2 vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Db2
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
DB2 is a family of relational database software solutions offered by IBM. It includes standard Db2 and Db2 Warehouse editions, either deployable on-cloud, or on-premise.
$0
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot is an AI-Powered Analytics company, that aims to create a more fact-driven world with an easy to use analytics platform. ThoughtSpot enables users to leverage natural language search powered by large language models to ask and answer data questions. Users within an organization can limitlessly engage with live data in any popular cloud data platform to create and interact with granular, hyper…
$95
per month
Pricing
Db2ThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
Db2 on Cloud Lite
$0
Db2 on Cloud Standard
$99
per month
Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex One
$898
per month
Db2 on Cloud Enterprise
$946
per month
Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex for AWS
2,957
per month
Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex
$3,451
per month
Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex Performance
13,651
per month
Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex Performance for AWS
13,651
per month
Db2 Standard Edition
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Db2 Advanced Edition
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ThoughtSpot Analytics Team
$95
per month flat subscription
ThoughtSpot Analytics Pro
starts at $30,000
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Analytics Enterprise
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per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Pro
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per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Enterprise
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per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Db2ThoughtSpot
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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Features
Db2ThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Db2
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
6.8
77 Ratings
19% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.021 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings6.877 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.725 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Db2
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
6.9
78 Ratings
16% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.778 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings5.877 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.345 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.976 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Db2
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.7
73 Ratings
8% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings7.647 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.168 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.656 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.629 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Db2
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.2
74 Ratings
12% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.073 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.569 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.657 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Db2
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
8.3
73 Ratings
4% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.371 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.364 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.468 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.260 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Db2
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.7
45 Ratings
3% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.943 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.427 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.939 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Db2
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.0
43 Ratings
12% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.134 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings6.828 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings7.026 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.127 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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User Ratings
Db2ThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(75 ratings)
8.2
(78 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(12 ratings)
9.7
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(7 ratings)
8.5
(73 ratings)
Availability
8.8
(52 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(11 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(6 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.7
(52 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Db2ThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
I could think of a couple but the obvious is in Fintech and Retail, because of the amount of transactional and event level data for global operations. It is imperative to have a solution that can handle such large scale date, in real-time and batch delivery for inbound and outbound delivery, and ultimately ensuring that workload management is supported in some cases for around the clock SLAs.
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ThoughtSpot
Well suited for my clients for a Macro view of business insights, credit risk, ESG insights, etc. However, I think ThoughtSpot needs to make exploring underlying data easier, adding a feature where you can click on charts and filters will help users and especially business users to easily understand the granularities as well.
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Pros
IBM
  • DB2 maintains itself very well. The Task Scheduler component of DB2 allows for statistics gathering and reorganization of indexes and tables without user interaction or without specific knowledge of cron or Windows Task Scheduler / Scheduled jobs.
  • Its use of ASYNC, NEARSYNC, and SYNC HADR (High Availability Disaster Recovery ) models gives you a range of options for maintaining a very high uptime ratio. Failover from PRIMARY to SECONDARY becomes very easy with just a single command or windowed mouse click.
  • Task Scheduler ( DB2 9.7 and earlier ) allows for jobs to be run within other jobs, and exit and error codes can define what other jobs are run. This allows for ease of maintenance without third party softwares.
  • Tablespace usage and automatic storage help keep your data segmented while at rest, making partitioning easier.
  • Ability to run commands via CLI (Command Line Interface) or via Control Center / Data Studio ( DB2 10.x+) makes administration a breeze.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
  • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
  • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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Cons
IBM
  • The relational model requires a rigid schema that does not necessarily fit with some types of modern development.
  • Proprietary database, requires a lot of Hardware for its good performance and its costs are high.
  • As data grows in production environment, it becomes slow.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Ability to build a single dashboard tile containing the main value, a sparkline, and a percent change over time
  • Easy way to build a user experience that allows for selecting different metrics to trend from a drop-down on a multi-axis graph
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
The DB2 database is a solid option for our school. We have been on this journey now for 3-4 years so we are still adapting to what it can do. We will renew our use of DB2 because we don’t see. Major need to change. Also, changing a main database in a school environment is a major project, so we’ll avoid that if possible.
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ThoughtSpot
I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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Usability
IBM
You have to be well versed in using the technology, not only from a GUI interface but from a command line interface to successfully use this software to its fullest.
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ThoughtSpot
The tool is easy to use if you know what you are doing and looking for. I know as they work towards improvements and simple language it will become even easier, but as of now they are doing a great job but there is room for improvement.
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
I have never had DB2 go down unexpectedly. It just works solidly every day. When I look at the logs, sometimes DB2 has figured out there was a need to build an index. Instead of waiting for me to do it, the database automatically created the index for me. At my current company, we have had zero issues for the past 8 years. We have upgrade the server 3 times and upgraded the OS each time and the only thing we saw was that DB2 got better and faster. It is simply amazing.
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ThoughtSpot
it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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Performance
IBM
The performances are exceptional if you take care to maintain the database. It is a very powerful tool and at the same time very easy to use. In our installation, we expect a DB machine on the mainframe with access to the database through ODBC connectors directly from branch servers, with fabulous end users experience.
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ThoughtSpot
It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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Support Rating
IBM
Easily the best product support team. :) Whenever we have questions, they have answered those in a timely manner and we like how they go above and beyond to help.
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ThoughtSpot
I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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In-Person Training
IBM
the material was very clear and all subjects have been handled
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ThoughtSpot
inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
IBM
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
IBM
db2 work well with the application, also the replication tool can keep it up
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ThoughtSpot
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
DB2 was more scalable and easily configurable than other products we evaluated and short listed in terms of functionality and pricing. IBM also had a good demo on premise and provided us a sandbox experience to test out and play with the product and DB2 at that time came out better than other similar products.
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ThoughtSpot
We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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Scalability
IBM
By
using DB2 only to support my IzPCA activities, my knowledge here
is somewhat limited.

Anyway,
from what I was able to understand, DB2 is extremely scallable.

Maybe the information below could serve as an example of scalability.
Customer have an huge mainframe environment, 13x z15 CECs, around
80 LPARs, and maybe more than 50 Sysplexes (I am not totally sure about this
last figure...)

Today
we have 7 IzPCA
databases, each one in a distinct Syplex.

Plans
are underway to have, at the end, an small LPAR, with only one DB2 sub-system,
and with only one database, then transmit the data from a lot of other LPARs,
and then process all the data in this only one database.



The
IzPCA collect process (read the data received, manipulate it, and insert rows
in the tables) today is a huge process, demanding many elapsed
hours, and lots of CPU.

Almost
100% of the tables are PBR type, insert jobs run in parallel, but in 4 of the 7
database, it is a really a huge and long process.



Combining
the INSERTs loads from the 7 databases in only one will be impossible.......,,,,



But,
IzPCA recently introduced a new feature, called "Continuous
Collector"
.
By
using that feature, small amounts of data will be transmited to the central
LPAR at every 5 minutes (or even less), processed immediately,in
a short period of time, and with small use of CPU,
instead of one or two transmissions by day, of very large amounts of data and
the corresponding collect jobs occurring only once or twice a day, with long
elapsed times, and huge comsumption of CPU



I
suspect the total CPU seconds consumed will be more or less the same in
both cases, but in the new method it will occur in small bursts
many times a day!!
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ThoughtSpot
Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Fast response time by processing optimization and cost reduction by reduced CPU utilization. Nowadays, good performance is a necessary condition for the survival of a company and its sustained growth
  • SQL enhancements are targeted to improve performance, simplify current and new applications, and reduce the development cycle time to market.
  • A CPU reduction at peak times can immediately reduce our TCO by reducing software costs related to CPU utilization.
  • Impressive reductions in memory requirements, which used to limit the concurrent database activity
  • Out-of-the-box savings without changing the database or application
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ThoughtSpot
  • Positive ROI immediately seen for first POC.
  • Saved an immense amount of time for a sole analyst on a team by enabling the end-users to ask their own questions instead of always turning to her, allowing her to focus on other priorities.
  • Immediate answer to question on second POC that led to personnel changes.
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