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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Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex One
$898
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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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August 10, 2022
Best tool for working with database.
Score 9 out of 10
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I mostly work on javascript applications working WebSphere, and the integration of DB2 with both the software is quite easy and effective. We have never faced trouble with this. It is also supported for mainframe programs which give the added benefit that we can do batch processing on the mainframe.
- Easy and user friendly. Secure and productive.
- Easy connection strings via programmatic use and procs.
- Database security, own interface, SPUFI, QMF.
- On a black screen with no GUI, can explicitly go like DB2 visualizer.
- More time required to pull data and time delay.
- Not enough exposure to the product as a lead, need guidance from DBAs at times to learn.
- Costing is too high.
- Easy implementation of DB level operation.
- DB2 database can store huge transactions and can be accessed efficiently.
- Scalability and flexible licensing are major feature of likeness for me.
- Legacy database that has served and continues to serve the enterprise data for a long time to come.
- It is not user friendly when compare to other oracle counterpart.
DB2 Data Warehouse and OLTP systems. LUW and Z/OS.
- Bulletproof transaction processing
- Continuous availability
- Ease of Administration
- Excellent throughput
- Version upgrades require an outage.
- DPF can scale amazingly well
- Columnar tables can provide great Warehouse performance
- The combination of DPF / BLU (Columnar) can REALLY scale!
- I have supported LARGE projects with Db2 that would have not been able to meet their SLAs (or even keep running) with other RDBMS.
Db2 is really reliable and fast. It can handle really large OLTP throughput and really large data warehouses.
February 22, 2022
A reliable RDBMS that does it job
The project I am currently involved in implies retrieving data from multiple source systems from many companies in order to integrate them into a Corporate Data Warehouse. Some of the companies use systems that have their data stored on DB2, so we need to generate ETL processes against DB2 to obtain the data.
- Reliable and secure.
- Excellent performance.
- Cross platform.
- Lack of modern client tool to connect and query database.
- Reliability.
- Performance.
- It has been in use for transactional (OLTP) systems for many years without requiring too much administration effort.
I did not choose DB2 over any other database engine, the corporation we are currently working for uses all of them for different companies/systems/departments and we need to consolidate data from all of them into a single data warehouse. DB2 is one of the many different data sources we have to work with, and we are able to interact with it without any complication or extra effort.