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IBM Db2 Overview

What is IBM Db2?

Built to run the world’s mission-critical workloads. Designed by the world’s leading database experts, IBM Db2 empowers developers, enterprise architects, and data engineers to run low-latency transactions and real-time analytics equipped for the most demanding workloads. From microservices to AI workloads, Db2 is the tested, resilient, and hybrid database providing the extreme availability, built-in refined security, effortless scalability, and intelligent automation for systems that run the world.

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Product Description

IBM® Db2® is the database that offers enterprise-wide solutions handling high-volume workloads. It is optimized to deliver industry-leading performance while lowering costs.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Extreme Availability
Mission critical environments require continuous availability and tolerance for failure. Deploy availability enabling you to run your workloads without interruption.

Built-in Refined Security
Security is at our core. Protect your data with in-motion and at-rest encryption, extensive auditing, data masking, row/column access controls, role-based access and more. No one knows your data like you do. Let’s keep it that way.

Effortless Scalability
Db2 grows with you. Scale up and out as your workloads evolve and your performance needs change.

Intelligent Automation
Managing your database deployments has never been easier. Db2’s built-in container operators automate your most time-consuming database tasks, while keeping your business running. Build apps while taking advantage of our advanced workload management automation and ML-optimized query engine. Do Less, build more.

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IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers.

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Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/23/2021

"IBM DB2 - a rock-solid database"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Db2 is well known for reliability and scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Lack of marketing by IBM. Very Expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shihan H.

Database Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/6/2020

"DB2 is excellent for performance"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

I have used almost all major relational database technologies throughout my career. Among them, DB2 is the fastest and most reliable database according to my experience. DB2 is unique for its compression technology for storage savings and performance acceleration specially working with analytical workloads. In one of the multinational companies I worked, we used DB2 as the main database on IBM AIX servers for our ERP and DB2 Blu for our Data-warehouse. Having previous experience with all other major database technologies, it sometimes amazed me with its speed of processing records. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

DB2 is not user-friendly as some of other major databases. Mainly since we used DB2 on AIX environment which is Unix command line-based, having long term previous experience working on windows-based environment to manage the database instances I find it difficult in the first place. We had to depend on writing, scheduling scripts on the operating system features. For analytical purposes we used windows environment which is better. But in my opinion compared to other leading vendors DB2 lacks overall user-friendliness. I assume their main focus on improving performance could have hindered the better graphical user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having previous experience with all other major database technologies, it sometimes amazed me with its speed of processing records. Specially its capability to handle terabytes of data faster than we expected. That helped us to speed up both overall development time and performance in production environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prabhjot S.

Senior Data Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/2/2020

"DB2 works so well with Tableau and other BI apps."

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Working with almost all kinds of DB technologies available right now, I have been so amazed with the speed of processing of records on db2. Being a Tableau expert, fetching data on the go at a reliable speed has been one of the critical requirement and I feel safe to say DB2 has been good with it not just in Live but in Creating Huge Extracts too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Nothing as such. It is already doing a good job. DB2 can even reach much greater heights in terms of Data Processing ( already is) with more frequent update rollouts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Db2:

It is a good tool for Storing and Warehousing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using DB2 to host huge financial data and create Tableau reports and dashboards out of it for data analysis. The performance have been very good with DB2 and also the interoperability across different environments ( Dev,Prod,Qa) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/22/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Very Nice Tool"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Easy to install

Scalability is good

Efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Db2 support

Configuring online backup is complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VIKAS S.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/3/2020

"IBM Db2 User Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

From the "Installer" prospective, I like the IBM support that is provided whenever any issue or challenges comes in the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

It is not as fast as other DB like oracle and some hardware compatibility issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vineet S.

Senior Analyst, Customer Engagement

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/4/2020

"Has been a great experience"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

The interconnectivity with python and the ease of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Takes a long procedure to set up and a Little slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek K.

Senior SAP Basis Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/3/2020

"SAP implementation on DB2 on Linux with netapp filesystem"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Easy to manage and less expensive database compared to Oracle. Enabling technologies like snapmirror and snapshots. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

monitoring and alerting functionality can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MANIK T.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/17/2020

"IBM DB2 expertise review"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Easy to learn and established to perfection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Nothing as such ,It is smooth to use always Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emma H.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/8/2020

"Just ok"

1.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Lots of global documentation in case you need to know more. Very standard functions as a user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

How slow it runs complicated queries. Not sure if it's because of hardware infrastructure, but a query running 30 min is way too slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Db2:

honestly, there are faster alternatives out there. Not sure if it was the implementation of our db2 servers, but it wasn't cloud and it wasn't up to date. Look elsewhere if you can. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using for transactional relationships Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dheeraj Y.

Subject matter expert

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/10/2020

"importance of db2"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

- It decreases replication of data, as it can access all of data.

- larger files are supported.

- Powerful SQL dialect in comparison of others.

- Multiple platform support.

- self-tuning memory management.

- Most important "IBM support". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

- less efficient monitoring tools.

- multiple tool availabilty might confuse user.

- limited size memory for some versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Db2:

IBM DB2 is quite pretty platform for everyone. It gives alot of which might be helpful for your project. Many developers and big organisation are working with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Db2 solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was replicating a huge dataset and I encountered with memory management. Sometimes it also failed to connect with server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.