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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. Db2

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon RDS

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.N/A

    Db2

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADB2 is a family of relational database software solutions offered by IBM. It includes standard Db2 and Db2 Warehouse editions, either deployable on-cloud, or on-premise.

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    Pricing
    Amazon RDSDb2
    Editions & Modules
    Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
    $0.24 ($0.48)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for MariaDB
    $0.25 ($0.50)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for MySQL
    $0.29 ($0.58)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for Oracle
    $0.482 ($0.964)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for SQL Server
    $1.02 ($1.52)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Db2 on Cloud Lite
    $0
    Db2 on Cloud Standard
    $99
    per month
    Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex One
    $898
    per month
    Db2 on Cloud Enterprise
    $946
    per month
    Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex for AWS
    2,957
    per month
    Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex
    $3,451
    per month
    Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex Performance
    13,651
    per month
    Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex Performance for AWS
    13,651
    per month
    Db2 Standard Edition
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    Db2 Advanced Edition
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon RDSDb2
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon RDSDb2
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    IBM
    Chose Db2
    IBM Db2 in my organization has had overall a much better consistency rating and effectiveness. Turnaround times are shorter and the need for human intervention is significantly less. We find Db2 to be more reliable overall and a better experience to use. In terms on real time …
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    Db2 provides a combination of performance and scalability. Security wise, Db2 is always a first choice, especially for the systems where security can't be compromised. For mainframe systems, there is no other DB in the market that can perform better than Db2. If an organization …
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    Considering Price, features configurations timelines of the IBM Db2 we found that is very Robust in Scalability, Reliability, Highly Available. also, we are already a IBM products user and we are much satisfied with the overall product as well as customer support from IBM team. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    I have experience with the above-mentioned similar products but mainly with MySQL. In terms of speed and query optimization capabilities, Db2 is far ahead in comparison to MySQL. Because of various issues like scalability, multiple departments hitting DB together causing …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Amazon RDSDb2
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (130 ratings)
    8.4
    (90 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    7.9
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (64 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (13 ratings)
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (64 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)