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Overview

What is Db2?

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.

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Db2 Review

9 out of 10
February 13, 2024
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Db2 has been a critical component of our organization's data management strategy, delivering several advantages to satisfy our business …
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DB2 review.

9 out of 10
February 07, 2024
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DB2 helps design, store, and handle large collections of data. DB2 provides both on-premises and cloud hosting solutions. DB2 can be …
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Pricing

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Db2 on Cloud Lite

$0

Cloud

Db2 on Cloud Standard

$99

Cloud
per month

Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex One

$898

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Db2?

IBM Db2 empowers developers, DBAs, and enterprise architects to run low-latency transactions and real-time analytics equipped for the most demanding workloads.

From microservices to AI workloads, Db2 is a hybrid database providing availability, built-in refined security, scalability, and intelligent automation for systems.


Availability

Mission critical environments require continuous availability and tolerance for failure. Db2 availability enables users to run workloads without interruption.

Built-in security

Db2 protects data with in-motion and at-rest encryption, auditing, data masking, row and column access controls, and role-based access.

Scalability

Db2 grows with users, scaling up and out as workloads evolve and performance needs change.

Automation

Built-in container operators automate time-consuming database tasks, while keeping the business running. Users can build apps while using Db2's advanced workload management automation and ML-optimized query engine.


Db2 can be run in the cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid environments.
Free Trials available here: https://ibm.biz/BdSWMA

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Db2 Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, UNIX
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and Google Cloud SQL are common alternatives for Db2.

Reviewers rate Performance highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Db2 are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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March 01, 2024

IBM's Db2: Database that can be your Jack of all trades

Aman Makwana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Aman Makwana
DevOps Engineer
Freecharge (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
10
IBM's Db2 is highly available data base and the Database is the most crucial component of an software architecture. Features of Db2 such as Storage autoscaling, Data partitioning, Automated DB backup and restore, Automatic failover support has drastically improved the performance of our application. Moreover, during our tenure we haven't faced any single failover issues
February 20, 2024

IBM Db2: Performance Powerhouse.

KU
Keyur Unadkat
IT-engineer
Gujarat Technological University (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
The database is a critical component of any organization. During our tenure of use, we haven't yet faced any issues related to availability. All thanks to its automated backups, database partitioning, and failover support. It has helped us incorporate reliable LMS for students and seamless administrative functions.
February 15, 2024

Db2 an Efficient DB Scale and Management Platform!

Verified User
Director in Product Management
Leisure, Travel & Tourism Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
I don’t think that I ran into any downtime issues but what I can say is that the two features high availability disaster recovery and transparent app failover drive an environment where impact to downtime is definitely minimized. The application failover focuses on the application services layer and provides that second layer of redundancy for an application.
February 13, 2024

Love Having and Working on Db2 for z/OS

Verified User
Consultant in Customer Service
Utilities Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
High availability changes rapidly from simply being available to being available and having excellent response time. With many applications providing a Web interface, and thus having more online users, the SSE/OVO achieved a near-instantaneous response time expectation. A modern application is constantly available and provides fast and consistent response time. Excellent response times are achieved by optimizing the in-house IT infrastructure, applications, and middleware and providing fast response times to online users. Nowadays, many applications query large amounts of historical data, and SSE/OVO delivers a good response time.
February 13, 2024

Highly Available and Scalable Relational Database

Rao Tahir | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rao Tahir
DotNet Project Manager
BookingWhizz (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
7
It is very robust, quite flexible, and always improving in terms of becoming more efficient. However, one downside that I have noticed is that to use its maximum potential, one needs to acquire a business license. Additionally, it is necessary to use IBM hardware, as using other hardware can cause conflicts.
February 13, 2024

Db2 Review

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
As I suggested earlier, Db2 solves all the queries and transactions in a few seconds. It is very reliable and fast. Its customer support team is very active and replies to our queries very promptly. I can say amazing!! Queries are solved quickly when our internal team has been trying to solve them for the last couple of days. Bang on...best choice ever.
February 13, 2024

IBM Db2: A Powerful and Reliable DB Management Solution

Verified User
Employee in Research & Development
Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
So far in terms of availability, we have not faced many issues. The only issue has been a bit with getting customer support from IBM, that was also only one incident when we were facing authorization issues, or that I have deducted one mark. Other than that, we have not faced any such issues as application errors or unplanned outages.
February 12, 2024

Db2 for for manage enterprise data

Somnath Nayek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Somnath Nayek
Sr Technology consultant
pwc (Computer & Network Security, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
As earlier mentioned the tools is use effectively and efficiently in our project also in other departments Aswell because of its availability and up time through out the year. although it process large chunk of data but it's performance at its pick.i have great experience ability to handle complex queries and its reduce load.
February 10, 2024

Db2 - a solid offering for data

Verified User
Supervisor in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
We have scheduled updates regularly and have not had an outage that was related directly to the Db2 database. It is maintained and always running smooth for us. This constant availability means data can be entered by school staff at all times, making it flexible for any of our business needs.
February 07, 2024

DB2 review.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
8
DB2 helps in working with large amounts of data faster. To generate reports or invoices, we rely on DB2. DB2 is supported in both on-premises and cloud-hosted solutions. DB2 can scale up and down based on the user load during peak hours. This avoids manual intervention and errors.
February 07, 2024

Db2 for enterprise scaling.

Prajwal Shetty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Prajwal Shetty
Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer
Databricks (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
Db2 provides the best features for availability issues. To address application errors or unplanned outages, it has data replication & zero downtime, with which customers can use backed-up data in case of unplanned outages. We can also sync our data whenever necessary; since we have a mirror copy of the data, it resolves most of the Availability issues.
February 07, 2024

Driving API Excellence: Exploring the Dynamic Capabilities of IBM Db2 in Empowering Scalable and Resilient Backend Databases

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
8
Db2 offers High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) to ensure availability by maintaining standby replicas of the database. in the event of a failure HADR can automatically switch to standby system, minimizing down time and ensuring continuous availability of the API services. Moreover, other recover features like the automated backup, point-in-time recovery and disaster recovery planning contribute significantly in our organization busines continuity.
February 07, 2024

DB2 is Good

richard shen | TrustRadius Reviewer
richard shen
Senior DBA
Macy’s (Retail, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Reliability and Availability
9
availability is the advantage of DB2 HADR. When unplanned outage happens, HADR will switch on the standby into primary using TSA until both server has issue at the same time. When application has errors, db itself will reflect the same.
February 06, 2024

Db2 Review

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Retail Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
10
I can't remember when was the last time when my Db2 system failed. Db2 is a very highly available database used by multiple user application with thousands of users running app against Db2 system. Very rarely requires any downtime. Very rarely requires a reboot and continues to function fine with high performance.
February 06, 2024

Db2 is an enterprise-grade RDBMS known for its reliability, scalability, and robust features.

Sharang Dwivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sharang Dwivedi
Database Engineer
Infosys Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
8
High Availability and Automatic Failover ensure critical systems remain operational the face of hardware failures or unexpected disruptions. HADR (High Availability Disaster Recovery) feature enables automatic replication of a primary database to one or more standby database. Db2 schema supports online schema changes which is particularly useful during system upgrades or modifications. Multi-Versioning Concurrency Control (MVCC) allows multiple transactions to be in progress simultaneously without locking the entire database. This concurrency control mechanism reduces contention and improves performance.
February 06, 2024

Guidewire Integration with IBM Db2.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
8
Db2 minimizes any issues of downtime during updates or any maintenance activity by providing high availability configuration. It reduces or avoids any unexpected issues. There is also planning and preparation for unforeseen events that can be technological or natural. So it all helps in replicas of data that db2 provides help.
February 05, 2024

IBM Db2's Features and Considerations are Amazing

Rohan Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rohan Kumar
Software Engineer
Mytechcasa (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
IBM Db2 supplies the structural support for a very efficient service-oriented architecture. Thousands of transactions can be received per second, which is what the system has to be able to handle. Read and commit to that! Absolutely incredible performance. Advanced analytics features from Db2, such as in-database analytics and integration with other IBM analytics products, might be available.
January 31, 2024

Hello

Khushank Sehgal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Khushank Sehgal
Software Engineer
McKinsey & Company (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
The rating is justified as the Db2 is always there to use whenever needed and it is easily accessible. Application errors of outages are common problems as developers are always improving their software to best suit the customers these days. It has taken our organisation in a positive direction and we are very happy to have it onboard as a tool for us and our customers.
January 29, 2024

Optimize your Database Applications with DB2.

Judy L. Berglund | TrustRadius Reviewer
Judy L. Berglund
Sr Systems Engineer
Dell EMC and Many Other Companies (Architecture & Planning, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Reliability and Availability
9
On the whole, Db2 has 5 9s for uptime and is normally available. Of course, every now and then, there may be an issue or an emergency update that needs to be applied, which requires an outage. However, applying a patch and rebooting the database is fairly quick, and nowadays, you can move your workload from one instance of Db2 to another, and no one would ever know that an outage occurred.
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