IBM's Db2: Database that can be your Jack of all trades
IBM's Db2 is the most low latency enterprises database which supports for faster realtime as well as supporting low latency transactions …
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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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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.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, UNIX |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
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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March 01, 2024
IBM's Db2: Database that can be your Jack of all trades
IBM's Db2 is the most low latency enterprises database which supports for faster realtime as well as supporting low latency transactions equipped with full availability. Our use case for in order to use Db2 is to store all our banking related datas ( user data, bank/ATM branches data, Transaction purpose ), Assets inventory and some data of our own datalake which helds massive amount of data for showcasing analysis for various use cases.
- 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
February 15, 2024
Db2 an Efficient DB Scale and Management Platform!
When we initially looked at Db2 the use case to drive adoption was geared towards control of large scale unstructured data which was sourced from many different sources integration methods. From that initial scope, you can image the workload and compute problems that you have in just extracting, loading, and running data quality processes on that data even before beginning to start to refine and curate for many different presentation layers. Db2 offers a wide range of integration support, has the agility to handle large scale enterprise workloads, and most import offers the flexibility of cloud compatibility.
- 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
February 13, 2024
For a long time, IBM DB2 has proven reliable.
After almost 4 years with Db2, I can confirm its reliability and accurateness and many features. As an illustration of its stability, it handles our situation with many transactions without issues and complaints. Also, due to its cross-platform interoperability, our efficiency increased, and we gained useful information. Finally, troubleshooting is very easy if any issue arises and can be solved very easily with detailed documentation and a helpful community.
- 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.
February 07, 2024
DB2 review.
DB2 helps design, store, and handle large collections of data. DB2 provides both on-premises and cloud hosting solutions. DB2 can be fine-tuned to scale according to the load, improving performance. DB2 can handle structured, unstructured, and relational data on one platform itself.
- Availability
- Flexible scaling.
- Security
- UI functionality.
- The cost is high.
- Complicated queries.
February 05, 2024
IBM Db2's Features and Considerations are Amazing
Because Db2 is scalable, it can be used by both big and small businesses with different types of data requirements. To obtain data and test my applications using various data sets, I primarily utilize SQL scripts. The financial and demographic data that form the foundation of our system are ideal for the Db2 database. With all of our sensitive data, the system's security is ideal.
- Reliability and Availability
- It has Advanced Analytics
- Security features are great
- UI can be improved.
- It has learning curve.
- Less Integration options
September 10, 2021
IBM Db2 on Cloud - A database as a service for everyone
It is being used by our research and development department. We are working on improving our IoT based ERP system. We want our system to have multiple database integrations so IBM Db2 on Cloud is one of them. We are storing the machine-generated data which comes directly from [the] production site.
- It is easy to understand
- It is fully managed and highly available
- It provides easy data migration
- They should work on improving UI part
- Documentation can be more helpful if they will add best practices section
September 08, 2021
A Robust & easy to use Database solution.
We have been using IBM Db2 on Cloud as our development & testing database which is used across different projects spanning multiple clients. Our development teams make use of this fully managed database as a service solution to store critical test data and also to fetch data for multiple applications.
IBM Db2 on Cloud is a very robust and versatile solution [that] doesn't need any prior hard core db knowledge to use it, so this was a clear choice when deciding to opt for a seamless database solution.
IBM Db2 on Cloud is a very robust and versatile solution [that] doesn't need any prior hard core db knowledge to use it, so this was a clear choice when deciding to opt for a seamless database solution.
- Extremely easy data migration
- Intuitive UI & easy to learn
- Availability of auto backup feature
- High service availability
- Very less region options
- Pricing model could be more flexible
- More product documentation be made available
- UI could be made more interactive with little bit of enhancement
May 03, 2021
DB2 - database for your IBM ecosystem
We are using DB2 as a primary database with one of our clients to store data generated by the GST software.
- Reliable and fast
- Easy to deploy and administer
- Scalable as per the requirement
- Micro options can be placed in more user intuitive interface
- Documentation can be improved to include more information about micro options available in different menus in the UI
February 01, 2020
Best Db out there - IBM Db2
Currently IBM Db2 on Cloud is used by our Department, and our organization used a multi-vendor database approach so it's not the only database on cloud we have. We are currently storing daily feeds from our car measurements on the Db2 and then pull data for reports.
- Easy to learn, install and query - great support. IBM is extremely good in support whenever you have any type of questions. You will find no issues on learning the language and installing.
- Amazing performance on big queries : Never had issues on performance and we have a big chunk of data to pull.
- UI : the UI can be improved to a great extent. Ideally we would want to see the UI/UX to match with latest trends.
- Limitation to a 15TB database size for any edition below than ES for on-prem. I am sure Cloud solves it, but falls in the same range as others (sometimes higher), making it maybe not the first one to go to.
June 27, 2018
DB2 easy access
We are using DB2 in our IT department. It's used as a back-end tool and specifically, we highly leverage the DB2 client tool to connect to IBM IAccess to do data connections to feed other inventory tools.
- DB2 provides a strong command line interface
- Very resilient DB connection
- Integrated very well with IBM product
- Maybe they could have a simple UI interface similar to MSSQL management studio