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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 Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/9/2018

"Amazing DB2 experience "

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

We use it on Mainframes. Very easy to use and good plugins with JAVA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Nothing to mention at this moment. Very easy to use for developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/7/2018

"Finally its Cloud and its a worth"

3.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

The cloud itself makes a huge difference accessibility, convenience and cost. Another advantage if fast and flexible deployment model with Docker Support. Huge variety of platforms supported Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

There is not much to dislike here, its a great advancement in technolog Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Derek J.

Network Engineer

Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/12/2018

"Great Database Platform (For the Most Part)"

3.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

DB2 is relatively simple to maintain and performs very well. It provides a wealth of enterprise class features (mirroring, replication, clustering, etc), and I've found the built in troubleshooting/monitoring tools to be quite handy. IBM support for the product has been excellent as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Worst ODBC drivers I've ever used - and that says something. There are countless variations and packages, each with 32-bit, 64-bit, and multilanguage flavors. It's easiest if you use the GUI-based tools to create the System DSN (using the Windows ODBC interface has never once worked properly for us), but the GUI tools install a small DB instance wherever they're installed. I don't want that on my servers just to get an ODBC connection set up. The lightweight drivers only provide poorly documented CLI tools and store passwords in cleartext ini files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Db2:

There are free products that perform just as well and likely have better integration capabilities with 3rd party applications. However, DB2 was the right fit for us because it worked natively with our aging mainframe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our DB2 cluster mirrors our mainframe databases to act as a data repository for all our business-critical applications. Our mainframe is unable to handle the load from external queries, so the DB2 cluster acts as the read/write for all integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/15/2018

"IBM DB2 review"

3.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Flexibility to support mainframe applications (DB2 z/os) as well as distributed applications (UDB). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Does not work as good as Teradata for processing large amounts of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nitin M.

Software Engineering Senior Analyst

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/16/2018

"I would prefer it least among all databases"

3.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Easy to install and deploy with tonns of red books and white paper available on net. It is cheaper as compared to Oracle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

It's hard to find good DB2 DBA's quickly. There are lot of great as well as less efficient monitoring tools in DB2 but no where it is mentioned which one is recommended by IBM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Apparel & Fashion

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/1/2018

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

"DB2 Review"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

I love the agility and speed at which I can work on, Scale CPU up or down and pay for what you use on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

It gives a disadvantage of learning too many things and functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/21/2018

"DB2 review"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Db2?

IBM Db2 is a DB used by developers because they can use it without the assistance of a database administrator, even with minimal skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.