What is IBM Db2?
Transform and modernize your business with the leader in AI-driven data management solutions. IBM Db2 is a family of hybrid data management products offering a complete suite of AI-empowered capabilities designed to help you manage both structured and unstructured data on premises as well as in private and public cloud environments. Db2 is built on an intelligent common SQL engine designed for scalability and flexibility.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
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79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 97%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 80%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 91%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 91%
- Service Experience:
- 93%
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+91 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love IBM Db2?
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Respectful
- Security Protects
- Trustworthy
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IBM Db2 Reviews
Nisha S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2025
DB2: Stable and Robust
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IBM Db2 from other similar products?
The management and query performance are well beyond what I expected.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The database is simple to configure and set up. Creating tables is straightforward and can be easily expanded. Primary, secondary, and tertiary keys are customizable and work well. Queries are easy to run and return accurate results. The database is highly scalable, and its ease of use is excellent.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Ability to export query results is inconvenient.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If anyone looking for Stable and Robust RDBMS he/she should definetly go with DB2
Pros
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Caring
- Generous Negotitation
sharvani p.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2025
Reliable and fast, but takes time to learn
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IBM Db2 from other similar products?
IBM Db2 stands out because it’s fast, reliable, and handles large amounts of data really well. It has strong security and great features like data compression and workload management, which help improve performance. Compared to other databases, it’s highly scalable and works well for big businesses. The downside is that it can be tricky to set up and has a learning curve, especially for new users.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It’s a stable and reliable database that doesn’t crash often. Once it’s set up, it runs smoothly without needing a lot of maintenance, which makes things easier in the long run.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Setting it up is pretty complicated and takes a lot of time, especially if you're new to it. The interface feels outdated, and some tasks feel more complicated than they need to be. It would be much better if it were more user-friendly.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you're planning to use IBM Db2, make sure you have a team with good database knowledge because the setup can be tricky. It’s a powerful and reliable database, but it takes time to learn. If you need something user-friendly, you might want to explore other options. But if performance and stability are your priorities, it’s definitely worth considering.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Agam P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2025
Unlock Advanced Analytics with IBM Db2
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IBM Db2 from other similar products?
When compare to other similar product from IBM Db2 it stand tall in many aspects like Advance AI and Machine learning, strong transaction manager, High performance data compression, Mainframe integration, Scalability and Flexibility and in other many aspects.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
To be frank my favourite aspect among all is machine learning reason it integrate the performances into the platform. Its ability to automatic performance, intelligent optimization should be also noted as some of the main features. Another feature when we compare to current technologies worldwide is advance AI reliable, another reason i like the most.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It is much expensive. Not very much supportive in other languages, it is quite complex for small-scale projects. Other than that i can't mark any other as a drawback.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend someone with some of the key aspects of this products which once inspired me to use habitually like strong data security and organization needing high performance and scalability, it also assist in a hybrid Cloud program which help in building the business to new hights.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
