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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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"Good experience with DB2 with IBM Spectrum Control"
It´s easy to use, the DB2 is easy to upgrade and manage, all instructions are well documented on the IBM knowledge portal and also the support of t...
Raul G.
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Raul G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"DB2 management"
Many utilities that facilitate use, in addition to improving the performance of some tasks.
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Astra S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Db2: High Availability and OLTP Powerhouse"
IBM Db2 is excellent for high availability and disaster recovery strategies particularly with HADR and Q replication for near real-time failover. T...

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Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Amazing features, speed and performance; the constant steady updates and enhancements from IBM; security it provides; interoperability with other DB's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

I can't think of much, perhaps more easy access to information on features and examples when researching on topics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Hospital/healthcare system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fulvio B.
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

The performance: no other database can guarantee the same performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

The complexity of the management, the expensive maintenance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

IBM Db2 is a stable platform and Integrated Relational Database Management System that leverages high-performance, virtualization, and energy efficiency features. Also, it is supported by different media. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

It's a little bit more complex for a beginner rather than this, I don't have much, but I love IBM Db2. It helps to store, analyze and retrieve the data efficiencly. It extended with Object oriented features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

IBM Db2 will make our work easy and quick, increasing productivity; connectivity with DB is also easy, and the more helpful thing is DB2 is extended with the support of Object Oriented features and nonrelational structures with XML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

It's a well known database used in large companies. There are many domumentstion related to how to integrate with different a languages or tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

It's a quite old and difficult to test some features in local Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Manage huge data with replication and hight disponibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manikishore S.
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

IBM Db2 is a good choice for businesses that need a reliable, scalable, and secure database for mission-critical applications. It is a mature product with a long uptime history and is used by companies of all sizes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Licensing can be expensive, Not as widely used as some other RDBMSs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it's reliable, scalable, secure and performant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Surendra S.
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Database accessibility, Database security, own interface, SPUFI, QMF. ISPWP, FAD, IStrobe.

Secured data storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Like BMC Db2 all database functionality should be provided there itself.

A black screen with no GUI, can explicitly go like DB2 Visualizer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Can be use separate GUI like DB Visulalizer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Data storage, optimization and normalization. Secured data storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Leonardo M.
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Facility to use If compared to another rdbms systems (i.e. Oracle). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Sometimes we don't have the needed support atention. Sometimes the answers are so generics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have some larges databeses processing analitycs things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

easy to create tables,edit tables, move data and other db activities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

took some time to understand the ui and how it works Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

for quering, creating tables, editing tables, managing db2 objects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

I has a great User interface. I can find what is going on a database just from few commands. It is easily manageable and one can easily diagnose the performance issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

There is nothing which i dislike about the product. but sometimes i feel customer support should have been better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

earlier we were using mysql, which is having few limitations then we switched to IBM DB2 which is having vast features and it supports our application which just make it increadible as our application is very senstive. Cost wise we have saved a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vignesh V.
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

It has a standard SQL engine to write queries once and reuse across multiple platforms, and it provides high availability while providing extended computing and storage on the managed cloud. It allows database partitioning to manage computations and parallel processing of queries efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

It would be great if we could have support to have a native UI tool to view data and execute queries. The query performance might be slow sometimes for long-running processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use DB2 to store and process transactional and mission critical data. It offers a higher level of security by default, making it a better choice for applications handling sensitive information processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.