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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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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
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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
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

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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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March 26, 2024

Review of DB2

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Its relaibility , Scaleability, replication tool HADR Security Managment and many more features makes it a very sound product. We face very less performance issue respect to other database products. IBM provided good support
Aman Makwana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Products which are at very high scale in Storage,traffic patterns, Live analysis, realtime streaming, Transactional workload. IBM's Db2 is a jack of all these above mentioned trades. IBM's Db2 is not suitable the very small scale workload as it is bit expensive.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Db2 is well suited for large-scale relational data management, transaction-intensive environments, and complex workloads. It excels in scenarios where there is a need for integration with enterprise applications. It is less recommended in cases where deployments are small-scale with minimal data management, transaction loads are simple, or resources are constrained. In all these cases, a simpler DBMS solution is recommended.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Unloading all tables on the Invoice Database and Transfer, and then transferring the data off the mainframe is much faster. It was at some point a bit less appropriate for Windows support while we executed a series of jobs to read the Db2 Unload files. For each partition, the file is reformatted and processed by a Cobol program. A DFILE type file is produced. This file is then read by another Cobol program, this program produces an SQL update file. Execute File Transfers to Windows Server.
Rao Tahir | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
it is well-suited for mid-sized multipurpose data storage which is very likely in some integrated platform that requires multiple formats of data fetching and storage for pushing or pulling into or from the external or internal system.
February 13, 2024

Db2 Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Db2 database is highly optimized and works very well with IBM products. They assist me in setting up indexes on massive data sets. My previous business employed Db2 for its backend application. Its Integration allows users to connect to a wide range of application programming interfaces via drivers. It is no SQL database so data can't be stored in the form of tables.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For organizations having huge data volumes, it is highly recommended to go for Db2 while in the case of smaller organizations, simpler solutions should work just fine. In my company, with capturing every shipment journey, the data volume generated exceeded the limit of simpler solutions, hence the optimal choice was to go for Db2 for various use cases involving ML/AI projects and visual KPIs visibility dashboards. Almost all our projects are dependent on Db2's quick response capability.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Both end users and programmers benefit from its reliability, accuracy, and simplicity. It offers the best cloud database management choices, which are very reliable and have almost zero downtime. With it, you can easily handle surges and loads without affecting server or database availability.
Somnath Nayek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used ibm Db2 with some oracle RDBMS..The result of ibm Db2 was demonstrated high scalability and availability. it's show better performance with oracle db.i used other vendor db tool but it's performance make it perfect to work with heavy data
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
A fairly stable database server that is compatible with other tools, making this software the best on the market in terms of data systematization and control; it is fully manageable with multiple platforms making everything easier.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Db2 is great as a relational database. If you are trying to manage connected data, say purchase transactions or connected info like our case of student information. We can show connected reports and marks to a student plus family information and charges to their account for things like printing costs or devices repairs.
Less suited applications include more modern setups. Where you are blending roles. Db2 requires specialised skills as query’s are different to SQL. So your base level database admin may require training or you’ll need a specialist contractor.
February 07, 2024

DB2 review.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DB2 is well suited for applications involving large amounts of data, like machine learning. DB2 provides API support for many languages.DB2 has an excellent compression feature. Not all applications work with the DB2 database. There are many new databases available currently that are faster in executing queries and have better UI experience.
Prajwal Shetty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Db2 is well suited for the High data availability, which significantly helps the enterprise by providing zero downtime. This resulted in fewer outages and a great customer experience. Often, Db2 lags in data partitioning since the algorithm's performance is not that great compared to the other object-related databases.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Db2 excels in mission-critical applications requiring high availability, scalability, and robust security. It may be less suitable for smaller projects with limited resources, as its initial setup can be complex. It's well-suited for industries like finance, healthcare, and telecommunications. Meanwhile, organizations which heavily invested in non-relational databases might find a transition challenging.
Michael Attea | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's particularly well suited where scailability security and agility is the objective and there is desire to leverage both cloud and on premises relational database warehousing. This can be particularly attractive for more data security sensitive industries with lots of data to store and keep protected.
February 06, 2024

Db2 Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Applications that need highly secured database.
Applications that need massive scalability and very high volume for very fast performance. Applications like
Very good for low latency transactions
It is very highly reliable, scalable and with very high performance.
Database of choice for credit card companies/insurance companies and any kind of financial transactions.
IT is one of the most matured relational database
Sharang Dwivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Db2 has been able to handle large transactions efficiently. Db2 offers robust security features, including access controls, encryption, auditing, high availability and disaster recovery etc. have been in the center place when we chosen Db2 database. As Db2 is IBM proprietary product hence not having very much open source integrations/tools to run the operations.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Db2 applications have a wide range based on their market projections or status; however, based on my experience in insurance, they can be used for managing policy data, claims information, and customer records or Master data management. We found that it lacks strength with forms management in our project. It does not provide services for forms or policy documents integration models.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It can be used where High Performance is desirable . This comes with lower licensing costs compared to its competitors . It gives the on-prem and cloud option , can be chosen per our requirement .
Its capable of storing large amounts of data , personally worked on 5TB database
Rohan Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM prioritizes availability and dependability in Db2, which makes it a strong option for applications that are mission-critical. Our business clients required a highly accessible database system that could grow with them easily. Although there were other possibilities, IBM Db2 offered smooth query execution and multi-cloud capabilities. This solution proved to be steadfast due to its potent performance and IBM Db2's dependability.
January 31, 2024

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Khushank Sehgal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Db2 is well suited for security cases where tons of data needs to be reviewed. It is specifically helpful in the case of large industries where there is already a huge collection of data and it needs a large amount of time and attention to get a precise and detailed data.
Less appropriate would be small industries as there is less data and all we can do is build on based on existing knowledge.
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