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Db2

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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Recent Reviews

Review of DB2

9 out of 10
March 26, 2024
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We are dealing with financial data of our org. We have multiple web applications (Financial applications like Core Banking, Pension / …
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Db2 Review

9 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Incentivized
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
Incentivized
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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.ibm.com/products/db2/pricin…

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

Db2 Integrations

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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Aman Makwana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Support for Integrations with Public cloud vendors
  • Rich Monitoring and Metrics so that a team can focus less on DB administration tasks and can focus more on Customer Experiences and Product Wellness, Queries monitoring/Indentification of slow queries, Query recommendations.
  • Database Scalability, Availability is very high
  • Migration Assistant so we can easily migrate the database from any platform to IBM DB2
  • Documentation needs bit attention as we have to find many things which can be found very easy
  • Good UI for monitoring, user can create own custom DB dashboards
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Can easily be scaled to growing data volumes.
  • Seamless integration with ERPs.
  • Optimizing queries.
  • High availability, minimum downtime.
  • Built in analytics functions would be useful.
  • Real-time monitoring and alerting can be improved.
  • Support/Documentation.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Query optimization capabilities - algorithms drive analysis and optimization execution plans for basic to complicated complex queries
  • Security built with data design in mind - encryption, access controls, and auditing are fully baked in ready to use amongst many other security features
  • Disaster recovery and availability - replication, automatic failover, and failure secondary copy mode for critical workloads and increased uptime
  • Learning curve for DB resources - Improvements to UI or native command line built-ins can help with increasing efficiencies for DB resources
  • Better resource utilization monitoring and recommendations
  • Continue to adopt support for modern frameworks and languages making it easier for organizations to see making Db2 the easy first choice
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It reduced the amount of time we spend managing data
  • A high degree of availability
  • Data Protection and data integrity
  • Exceptional scalability with a high volume of transactions
  • Partition by growth tablespaces
  • Data refresh
  • Integration with cloud
Rao Tahir | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • XML structured data storage
  • Relational data storage
  • Materialized query table
  • Online backups need to be taken only in an offline environment which is quite troublesome because you don't always have the option to go offline.
  • Extensibility for buffer pool size in case of large data sets sometimes some tables could need more size for storing which is not possible at the moment.
  • Could be a lot more handy if they could introduce temporal tables like the ones in ms SQL.
February 13, 2024

Db2 Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ideal for storing and organizing our client's data
  • Compatibility with many systems makes integration smooth
  • Processing of queries happens in milliseconds
  • The software upgrade process is quite hectic and lengthy
  • Rest is all good as per my experience while using it
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It's capable of handling large volumes of data, as in our case, every shipment's information.
  • It provides advanced query optimization, enabling quick response and real-time visibility via dashboards.
  • It has easy integration with other IBM products.
  • The biggest challenge is to identify the correct configuration as per the business use case. There should be some sort of AI help for the same.
  • Difficult to use for new users. There should be better training modules available.
  • Requires huge investments. They should have more plans for smaller organizations.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Compatible with almost every 3rd party application, it is easier to link and integrate.
  • Very accurate and reliable. It has a reliable community and detailed documentation.
  • Has great data protection and security and robust backup options.
  • It is very difficult to setup or configure, even with the help of the documentation. So, make the setup process simpler.
  • The support takes quite some time to reply to our queries, which is sometimes frustrating.
  • There is nothing else that I see can be improved. Maybe a better UI or dashboard would be great.
Somnath Nayek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • use in project where we have house database and complex querry to slove
  • easy installation and also integrate with cloud vendor application for better visibility.
  • robust,lost of flexibility
  • ideal for big org
  • this is complex to manage
  • cost of this application.
  • as data grow its became slow
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting and analytics.
  • Data storage.
  • Data retrieval.
  • Search speed needs to be improved; it's quite slow.
  • Overall, this product has nifty features that work seamlessly with top-of-the-line technology.
  • Storing blobs.
February 07, 2024

DB2 review.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Availability
  • Flexible scaling.
  • Security
  • UI functionality.
  • The cost is high.
  • Complicated queries.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • High Availability Disaster Recovery
  • Scalability
  • Real-time Data Processing
  • Open Source Initiatives
  • Automated performance tuning
  • Simple configuration
February 07, 2024

DB2 is Good

richard shen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • DB2 has build in replication tools make online data replication/movement much easier and fast.
  • DB2 HADR is reliable, keep Database up and running 99.99% of time, switch beween servers in seconds.
  • DB2 Federation make the access to all kinds of Databases like in one.
  • DB2 is stable on Linux/AIX even Windows.
  • DB2 Locks is too strict, very little flexibility
  • Like to more built-in function, procedure for Analysis/Reporting
  • Love to see DB2 can go open source, so that it can get more developer involved
Michael Attea | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Best of both worlds agility oweing to on-premises and cloud based options
  • flexibility of scaling and handling of more data types than SQL
  • Powerful scalability and capabilities alongside user friendliness of relational databases
  • Can be more challenging than alternatives to remodify / alter programming of frameworks
  • controls minority of market share which can translate to less employees enthusiastic to leverage
February 06, 2024

Db2 Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • backup and restore of database very easily
  • Good database security for access
  • Easy to Administer
  • Not available as option in Azure Cloud.
  • plan rebound that is required after the database changes
  • hard to find good Db2 DBA
Sharang Dwivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Integration with other IBM products
  • Online Data processing
  • Cost effective as compared with Oracle
  • Data warehouse
  • Lacks 3rd party integration or limited flexibility.
  • Getting Db2 experts now a days are difficult.
  • Other RDBMS are evolving much faster than Db2 features.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Db2 integrates well with a Guidewire or any other policy admin systems in the insurance domain.
  • Data synchronisation in db2 helps with data consistency.
  • Integration complexity was a challenge because the Guidewire model was different.
  • NoSQL databases are not much developed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Handle Large Loads
  • Good Backup and Recovery Options
  • Disaster Recovery Option
  • High availablity options
  • Security Feautres
  • Make it more user friendly
  • Complex commands
  • Third Party Integration to manage backups etc
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