IBM Db2

RATING:

4.4

(51)

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 per...

IBM Db2 Pricing

Pricing is based per instance.

Starting price: 

$1,000.00 

Free trial: 

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IBM Db2 Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for IBM Db2

1 - 5 of 51 Reviews

User Profile

Luis Alexis

Verified reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2018

In My professional life I have used DB2 on the AS / 400 and e_Series platform for more than 15 years

Implementing in record time allowing operating different system projects in the companies where I worked, you can be quiet because the data of the companies are based on a robust database eliminated the level of distress, allows access to your level of user user security to the system users allowing them to elaborate the data of the database in an excel sheet for example.

PROS

Easy database Implementation easy administration can be managed from any station the level of specialization is much lower than any other database, robust and recovery by indexes, interconnects with other databases such as Sql Server and allows data sharing in Immediately, its level of robustness and integrity is unique.

CONS

Proprietary database, requires a lot of Hardware for its good performance and its costs are high.

Maha

Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2023

IBM DB2: A high availability Relational Database

PROS

The main project that made me involved in working with DB2 is a transactional concurrency benchmark that compares IBM DB2 to Oracle 10g RDBMS. The benchmark results demonstrated high scalability and availability properties in DB2 but the TPS measures showed a better performance of Oracle 10g on HP ML350 servers. DB2 supported better concurrency in bulk data-intensive SQL queries but lagged in computation-intensive tasks.

CONS

The programming language support is definitely something that needs improvement in addition to cloud integration and deployment tools. Many other commercial RDBMSes (such as Oracle) are leading ahead on this front. OS support, such as testing OS X platforms, can be also better provided in DB2l

Reasons for switching to IBM Db2

Doing benchmarking on the different RDBMS configurations and deployment models.

Anonymous

201-500 employees

Used less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

2

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed February 2019

IBM D2

I would recommend use of DB2 in modern tech advancements. Light weight DB like MySQL, postgres are much better.

PROS

Db2 was used in our mainframe application. it accepts standard sql syntax. can handle large amount of data.

CONS

As data grows in production environment, it becomes slow. Thread hung and application performance degrades. Also it's costly.

Anonymous

1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2020

29/5000 Extremely stable and safe

Over 10 years using DB2 I can affirm that it is a very secure bank, with updates that bring new features, high compaction power and geographic contingency features gave us the security to work with SAP.

PROS

DB2 HAS A SERIES OF TOOLS THAT ARE DIFFERENTIAL, BUT HIGHLIGHTING THE CAPACITY OF SELF-MANAGEMENT (PARAMETERIZATION) AND DATA COMPACTION. ARE STRONG POINTS TO CONSIDER.

CONS

The acquisition cost can be a hindrance in the acquisition negotiations. Support is also a weakness for the cost, forcing the use of DB2 communities for troubleshooting.

Reason for choosing IBM Db2

For its ease of management and for being included in the commercial proposal, training and support at an attractive price.

Sean

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2021

Heavy and expensive, but good at what it does

PROS

Db2 scales very well AFTER a certain point. Support is excellent, it's easy to get stood up once you have a feel for what you're doing.

CONS

Scaling: for instance it won't run on small machines too well. This becomes important if you're running a local copy for development or testing. There is a free Community Edition to play with, but can't take advantage of tons of ram or CPU, but good for POC.

Reason for choosing IBM Db2

Support almost exclusively

Reasons for switching to IBM Db2

Went from free to paid, MySQL couldn't handle the volume of data and requests, nor could it scale as easily to meet our need.