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IBM Db2 provides solutions for Data Lake, Operational Database, Data Warehouse, and Fast Data. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.4/5** | 51 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: IBM ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$1,000.00 - **Pricing Details**: Pricing is based per instance. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Backup and Recovery - Data Migration - Database Conversion - ETL - Extract Transfer Load - In-Memory Processing ## Category - [Database Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/18/database-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Database Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/18/database-management/software) - [Data Warehouse Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/31116/data-warehouse/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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It was one of the most solid products. > > For the first 5yrs of work as a Senior Programmer, at the job, we had lots of systems based on DB2. ----- ### "IBM Db2 on Cloud: Database Need No Installation" — 5.0/5 > **Jeremias** | *26 May 2020* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: IBM Db2 on Cloud makes it more easier to use to teach database management in my class. Students need no installation procedure to use it. All you need is a IBM Cloud Account to access the application. > > **Cons**: Security is tight. Students can not create account if they use school common IP workstation when accessing cloud.ibm.com. > > We already solved the problem of download/install procedure to use the DBMS. Student need no installation on cloud setup. ----- ### "Best database for large volume data" — 5.0/5 > **Riya** | *1 April 2023* | Computer & Network Security | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: IBM DB2 provides the low latency and high data availability, It provides automatic scaling and high security for the large volume of data. It is robust No matter how much amount of data is, IBM DB2 will never fail. > > **Cons**: IBM Db2 is a bit expensive and not all the SQL standards available in the IBM Db2 > > We are using IBM db2 to store large volume of sensitive user data which scale automatically when required, it allows multiple concurrent transactions with no data redundancy and maintains the isolation property. ----- ### "IBM DB2: A high availability Relational Database" — 4.0/5 > **Maha** | *1 July 2023* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **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 ----- ### "IBM D2" — 3.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *1 February 2019* | Insurance | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **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. > > I would recommend use of DB2 in modern tech advancements. 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