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IBM Db2 Overview

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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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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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"Best and Stable RDBMS"
Transaction processing, robust, secured.
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"I trust Db2 to be my business's system of record"
Performance and security; customer support is top notch.
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"db2 reliability"
Db2 reliability and integration with other products
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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

IBM DB2 has a very reliable security layer which allows to keep the data safe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Sometimes takes time in processing the larger set of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have installed IBM DB2 to 5 customers in a row in a calender year. They are very happy with the performance and security of the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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it is very robust, you can trust it 100%, it always work and it's very well maintaned, it's always improving Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Out of its users I think it's not very well consider, it is seem as something oldfashioned. It shouldn't be seen like this, but guess it is, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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IT is fast and never goes down Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Most available,secure and scalable database in the world. It in use in nearly all TOP 10 FORTUNE 500 Companies, Government Agencies and Universities.

IBM relentless Innovation and FOCUS to perinnially update it with latest features and trends keeps it in the NUMBER ONE database seeks by all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

When using DB2 we we can get auto suggestions for the commands and SQL it could help GREATLY improve Customer Experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

DB2 is the solving the problem of 24X7 availability and benifiting improve customer satisfaction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

It was my first approach to database and it feels so unsupported some regular expression at least where I use it won't work like regex_like. Also it's a cheaper solution for small company. Also easier to integrate with odbc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Unsupported feature. The version I'm running has some lack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This database was unuse to end-user due to its complexity, as a data engineer I start to translate those users need and provide data solutions, without having them touching the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Db2 reliability and integration with other products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

that there are differences between the distributed and z/os versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

data warehouse for legacy vsam application on z/os Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Can be used in openshift and easy installation and support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

IBM documentation not is easy to find to resolved issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Can be used in infrastructure openshift Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ilike the Perfromance and Stability of IBM DB2 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Nothing As I know but application teams complain about licensing Costs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is helpful in eCommerce applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

Transaction processing, robust, secured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

DB2 works on multiple platforms I like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Processing petabytes of data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Db2?

It's ease of use, administration, security, resilience, performance, stability, scalability, availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

It's not used enough! It's well-respected, but could do with more press! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Transaction processing, data warehousing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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High performance, scalability, flexibility, strong security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Db2?

Complex setup, resource-intensive, learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

efficiently managing and processing large datasets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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