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IBM's Db2: Database that can be your Jack of all trades
March 01, 2024

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

Aman Makwana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Db2 on cloud

Overall Satisfaction with Db2

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
  • Data Governance, Higher Data Performance, Improved Overall products SLA's/SLO's, Guaranteed Uptime
  • Less Database Administration overhead, More focus on improving products
  • Rich Monitoring and Backup/Restore Process
IBM's Db2 is Seamlessly Scalable Database and it has all the features One Enterprise Organisation needs in order to operate at large scale providing features like Monitoring, Identifying slow queries( hence improving products performance). Our IBM's Db2 implementation is on AWS we have provisioned via RDS which spans Multi Availability zone and Multi Region helding data for users, users transaction, inventory assets, Datalake data.
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
Considering Price, features configurations timelines of the IBM Db2 we found that is very Robust in Scalability, Reliability, Highly Available. also, we are already a IBM products user and we are much satisfied with the overall product as well as customer support from IBM team. This brings us to use Db2 in our organisation.

Do you think Db2 delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Db2's feature set?

Yes

Did Db2 live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Db2 go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Db2 again?

Yes

MySQL, Oracle Database, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
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.