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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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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    MySQL

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AMySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.N/A
    Pricing
    Db2MySQL
    Editions & Modules
    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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    Pricing Offerings
    Db2MySQL
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Db2MySQL
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    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
    Chose Db2
    Before selecting Db2, I had the opportunity to work with three different products: MySQL, IBM API Connect and IBM Cloud Databases.MySQL is a very popular and effective relational database management system, especially known for its ease of use and reliability. While working …
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    It's almost not comparable because they all do the same job in varying degrees. There are some things I like about Db2 that I don't enjoy about Oracle, but it mostly comes down to how it works and where it stores everything like SYS tables in Db2. MySQL is probably the fastest …
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    MySQL was definitely faster in terms of making queries, but DB2 had many features that protected against errors and easier to use for SQL beginners.
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    Although each are good, DB2 provides greater scalability, flexibility for data integrity.
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    From working with other databases, I always felt that Db2 was at the top of its game in all aspects of performance, recoverability, and stability—pretty much everything you want out of an Enterprise database system.
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    IBM Db2 provides solutions for Data Lakes, Operational Databases, Data Warehouses, and Fast Data. IBM has a rich history of being a diversity, equity, and inclusion leader. Easy to design, implement, test, and implement with huge support material across different platforms. …
    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
    Db2 is more scalable, reliable, and easily configurable than all the products that we evaluated. We were already using some of the services provided by IBM and were satisfied with the support and pricing. This led us to select Db2 as our database management system.
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    DB2 was more scalable and easily configurable than other products we evaluated and short listed in terms of functionality and pricing. IBM also had a good demo on premise and provided us a sandbox experience to test out and play with the product and DB2 at that time came out …
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    Db2 is one of the best relational databases I’ve used. It has the ability to maintain large amount of data and execution of million transactions in fraction of a second. If you use it properly, an organization can build a database with thousands of tables, and it can provide …
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    Db2 out-performs each one on performance, availability and scalability.
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    Db2 is really reliable and fast. It can handle really large OLTP throughput and really large data warehouses.
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    The most straightforward and easiest to use. Probably the biggest bang for the buck of any of the vendors. Handles our business needs perfectly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    DB2 is much more robust than Oracle or mySQL when used in the Z/OS or Linux platform as it has the best error detection/warning system and also is very fast when accessed over the LAN in remote branch locations. It is scalable to a limited extent though as is the case in all …
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    I have managed Oracle databases too and in my opinion both the database platforms perform about equally. We mostly chose DB2 because we had existing resources familiar with DB2 and the DB2 platform was generally cheaper due to the ability to negotiate cheaper yearly license …
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    We did not select DB2. We are currently attempting to phase it out of our architecture due to licensing costs, lack of support, and we are trying to unify on a single database platform.
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    Db2 is one of the oldest and mature rdbms available in the market. IBM products were already been used in the organization. Cost effective in terms of licensing.
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    Db2 is industrial strength, supportable 24x7 and solid.
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    Less in cost when bundled with IBM products
    Ease of use and maintenance
    Incentivized
    Chose Db2
    It is faster and the transactions are much more safer and reliable if I compare it with the two SQL database I mentioned above, as far as MongoDB is concerned it completely depends upon the requirement of the project, if a SQL or a NoSQL database is more suitable for a project.
    Incentivized
    Oracle
    Chose MySQL
    MySQL is perceived as less scalable than DB2. DB2 provides for an easy migration up to more scale if it is acceptable or required to remain in the IBM ecosystem, which can scale all the way to z-Series mainframes. For some enterprises like insurance and banking, this is a …
    Incentivized
    Chose MySQL
    Postgres, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, DashDB, MongoDB, RedShift - all of them have their strengths and weaknesses. I will say this about MySQL though, it is generally the first database chosen by a startup. It's easy to use, easy to deploy, free, and it just works.
    Incentivized
    Chose MySQL
    We chose MySQL because of its open-source nature and its compatibility with various systems, languages, and databases. It is easy to use and fast. Additionally, it has been in the market for more than 30 years now which makes it a reliable option when compared to its …
    Incentivized
    Chose MySQL
    it is cost effective solution and that time we were looking the good RDMS which can support the GIS based datatypes.

    Its community edition is fantastic
    Incentivized
    Chose MySQL
    MySQL provides the option to reduce support and maintenance cost when P0 Level 1 support is not really needed for databases used for noncritical use cases and workloads. Other versions that include Microsoft SQL, Amazon RDS, etc don't provide such options and are overkill. …
    Incentivized
    Chose MySQL
    MySQL is much more flexible and easy to start using.
    Incentivized
    Chose MySQL
    Easy tools integration and lib
    Incentivized
    Chose MySQL
    We have used Oracle and DB2 and both of them are used to store huge amount of data. MySQL is used for reporting purposes in our organization.
    Incentivized
    Chose MySQL
    The main reason that we went with MySQL is the cost. It's very cost effective and can do almost everything that Oracle can do. Database management is also very simple when compared to Oracle as we didn't have to contact the DBA for issues. Also, we found a lot of improvement in …
    Incentivized
    Chose MySQL
    I have used more than 10 different SQL databases over the course of my career. Of those, the three I find myself using over and over include MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server. I have actually replaced smaller deployments of Oracle and SQL Server with MySQL as a way to reduce …
    Incentivized
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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
    Db2MySQL
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (90 ratings)
    9.3
    (135 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.9
    (12 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    9.3
    (64 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.4
    (64 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)