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Overview

IBM Db2

4.4

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Pricing

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About IBM Db2

IBM Db2 is an AI-enabled hybrid data management suite, which helps organizations manage both structured and unstructured data across cloud and on-premise environments. Features include data encryption, uptime monitoring, automated schema generation and data migration.

With IBM Db2, professionals can gain insights about customer behavior and track opportunities using predictive analysis. IBM Db2 on Cloud offers a host of features such as data federation, point-in-time recovery and HADR with multizone region support, which enables developers to handle workloads. Team members can protect data with built-in self-service snapshots or geo-replicated data recovery backups. It comes with an on-demand cloud service, IBM Db2 Hosted, which lets users optimize queries and perform in-memory processing of transactional and analytical operations.

IBM Db2 offers a variety of pricing plans for its solutions and extends support via documentation and discussion forum.

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IBM Db2 Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,000.00

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$1,000.00

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IBM Db2 Features

Popular features found in Database
Backup and Recovery
Database Conversion
Data Connectors
Data Migration
Data Replication
Data Virtualization
Multiple Programming Languages Supported
Performance Analysis
Secure Data Storage
More features of IBM Db2
Data Dictionary Management
Encryption
ETL - Extract Transfer Load
In-Database Processing
In-Memory Processing
Monitoring
Real-Time Analytics
Relational Database Management

IBM Db2 User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

49%

45%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.4

Jeremias E.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

IBM Db2 on Cloud: Database Need No Installation

We already solved the problem of download/install procedure to use the DBMS. Student need no installation on cloud setup.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Previously 3

Functionality

Pros:

IBM Db2 on Cloud makes it more easier to use to teach database management in my class. Students need no installation procedure to use it. All you need is a IBM Cloud Account to access the application.

Cons:

Security is tight. Students can not create account if they use school common IP workstation when accessing cloud.ibm.com.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Proven for enterprise workloads

Have used DB2 as a Relational Database (RDBMS) for the past 10 years, primarily to support SAP based enterprise workloads. IBM's development of DB2 has been fuelled by one of its largest customers - SAP. As such this review will be biased towards SAP. I started with DB2 7.5 on IBM's flagship AIX Operating System, and it has come a long way. These days AIX is dead (unfortunately), and IBM's Power platform is leveraging Linux. DB2 of course supports the big-endian based Power platforms, and the little-endian based x86 platforms that run both Linux and Windows. DB2 is very versatile as a database, and supports most features that enterprise-based databases like Oracle support. It really is a matter of choice. DB2 administrators are obviously not as easy to find as Oracle's, but so long as the DBA's have good knowledge they can be cross-trained easily.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

- ACID compliant like any good RDBMS (Oracle, MSSQL, SAP HANA) - Runs well and scales well on IBM's Power-based platform, and commodity x86 hardware running Linux/Windows - Various editions to suit customer needs and requirements. For example the Developer Edition is fully featured and is completely free for developers to use, or all the way to Enterprise Edition for state-of-the-art functionality (In-Memory based Columnar Tables thru its BLU functionality, High-Availability, Disaster Recovery etc. to prevent Single-Points-of-Failure). Rivals the existing enterprise RDBMS's

Cons:

- Even though there is a GUI for point-and-click administration (IBM Data Studio), to really flex the database's features and functionality command-line tools are required (like Oracle :-)

Verified

Reviewer

51-200 employees

Used other for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Good DBMS

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Has great features, it's easy to use, if you need to manage larg amount of data this should be your option

Cons:

Requires a lot of cpu and Ram which is some cases is now possible, the interface might be called obsolete

Verified

Reviewer

Information Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

The reliable RDMS for Legacy systems

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Use it if you are using a Mainframe OS. The navigation is not too complex considering a minimalistic UI.

Cons:

The query speed and result retrieval is a pain point. May be they can introduce an instant results UI page on the Mainframes.

Verified

Reviewer

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2018

Great product, easy to install and use. Been using it for 6 years in different projects.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Installation is very easy and when installed it's ease of use, very convenient. It's also very easy to connect to other tools like DBVisualizer which gives another way of viewing the tables and info.

Cons:

They need to improve the help online to find some commands, and the explanation on the commands as well.

shashank v.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Best RDBMS Software

My experience using this RDBMS software is very good as retrieving of data from the database is very fast. We can execute complex queries in a smooth way. I actually wanted to store XML data inside the database in case of any B2B transactions that I need to store for further processing. DB2 database has the capability to store XML data and store some large files in regards to that transaction details.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

1) DB2 is very cheap, easy to install. We don't have to worry about license costs as they wouldn't be more than that in Oracle. 2) It can run on any OS like windows, Linux, Mac. 3) We can use DB2 along with XML data also. 4) The retrieving of data from the db2 database is very fast which is actually a very good feature. 5) Can store large files in the database in an easy way. 6) We can store the data in different locations across the data and the data can be accessed from different locations in a faster way. 7) Index feature is available in DB2 to identify a unique table out of thousands of tables in DB2 database.

Cons:

I didn't find any flaws using this software.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

IBM DB2 user since several months

We load all the sales data into DB2 system and will derive analytics on top of it. I can recommand if you have lot of budget to put on database managemnet.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

1) DB2 has extensive functionality, has a lot of built-in features. robust database software 2) easy to use, and MPP systems which make the system to process data parallel. 3) DB2 SQL is anscii standard so migration to/from other databases would be easy.

Cons:

1) expensive compared to other solutions available in market. 2) Few of the DB2 specific syntaxes are non convertable when we move to other databases.

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Reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

DB2

DB2 has kept me working for 30+ years.

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Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

DB2 is very versatile, and can be used to drive the processing in your software.

Cons:

Too many abends using the product, and too hard to diagnose.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

A powerful relational database

Overall satisfied, used in couple of my projects, even with AS400.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to integrate with any API with minimal configuration

Cons:

Searching large amount of data might take time, indexing strategy could be better

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

DB2 is solid as a rock

I'm happy with db2 , IBM is doing a good job release by release powering the software .

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

DB2 is solid as a rock. I'm using it from several years and with last release 11.1 it's been also easiest to be set up from newbie admin. DB2 is the classical server you will setup and you fill find again after years.

Cons:

It's not economic and needs some education to be used in production environment.

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