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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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5.0 out of 5
"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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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

DB2 is used in data warehousing solutions for ETL purpose to store, analyze and retrieve the data efficiently. It can also be used for semi- structured data i.e, XML and is extremely fats as compared to other traditional databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

It is scalable but version control, expanding hardware capacity is quite painful, required outage etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Db2:

If you want to opt for traditional RDS then go for it otherwise the cloud offerings like Snowflake etc make more sense in the current world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I was using it in one of the organisations for data warehousing solutions for ETL purposes to store, analyze and retrieve the data efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tabassum K.
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

the most helpful thing about this database is the excellent performance and advanced database operations can be performed easily. I used this database for smooth transaction processing of the customer's data and found it reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

There are few of the disadvantages of this database are as below.

It doesn't have modern connectivity which sometimes creates problems.

The worst thing is, outage requires every version upgrade and performing some other activities too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I used this database for the customer's tractional data storing and performed several database operations, it always gives better performance and is highly reliable at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sathish kumar S.
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Security and performance is good comparing to others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Cost is very high compared to other competitors of RDBMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Security and performance are in good standard and benchmarking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vaibhav K.
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

It just works for me, I will consider it where we have a very huge amount of data, Found that with the time the latency to fetch things drop down fast when the properties are correctly configured as per the app behavior. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Of course, the amount I will pay for the premium services is on the higher side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Have explained one scenario in the "What do you like best?" where it was very helpful otherwise Oracleoffer similar things already. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Enterprise level security with highly granular access control levels can be acheived using db2. It's fast and reliable and can Scale to really large data. Excellent query optimizer is powering db2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

One of the main disadvantages is high licensing cost. Along with that we noticed that db2 webconsole is not stable and crashes often. Debugging with db2 logs can be improved a lot as they are not verbose enough. There is a lot of scope in improvement of documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We used to solve requirement of highly scalable transactional database also to serve as data warehouse. Analytics were much faster with consistent latency. Stored procedures were leveraged for our business usecase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Accesibility,Accessibility, and simplification. Gets multiple things queries at the same time and also the search is faster as it allow user to skip the query and get the result quickly by performing search on multiple columns at the same time across the tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Nothing as such..I am using this product from quite a few time now and it looks almost perfect to me which makes my life easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

On day to day projwct related queries.moatly dealing with claims related data through multiple table DB2 allows to query fast on timely basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anup P.
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Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Easy and user friendly. Secure and productive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Not supported in modern technology and environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Data extraction and storing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Db2 is easy to use and has just about every feature you can imagine in a relational database management system. You can use it on the mainframe, as well as on Linux, Unix, and Windows systems, and even the iSeries platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Not much to dislike. Perhaps IBM could do a better job of marketing it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using Db2 to organize and report on all types of business data. The temporal support is great for complex business data that changes over time. And the relational optimization is the best in the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

fluidly adapting to our changing needs and integrating with multiple platforms languages and workloads. IBM Db2 is supported across Linux, Unix, and Windows operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

version upgrade requires an outage

Lack of modern client an tool to connect

No free trial

Costing is too high

DB2 web console is not too stable

Improve documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Db2:

It's best to be used with other warehouses like teradata and snowflake Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are trying to use finance and bank related data ,Trying to replace existing datawarehouse workload running on teradata with IBM DB2.

Also integratng big data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

The ease of organizing & managing data. But it has been a long while I have worked on DB2. But I like using the SQL commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

I remember there were a few issues but can't remember as it's been a while since I worked on DB2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Db2:

It's a great product with relatively easy commands to help get the job done. But since it's been a while that I've been exposed to it I can't tell you other specifics or improvements that were done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were using DB2 to help reorganize our company's data to make it easier to retrieve and recover at a moment's notice in case of equipment change and/or data glitch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.