Db2 vs. PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Db2	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	DB2 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.	$0
PostgreSQL	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	PostgreSQL (alternately Postgres) is a free and open source object-relational database system boasting over 30 years of active development, reliability, feature robustness, and performance. It supports SQL and is designed to support various workloads flexibly.	N/A

Pricing

Db2

PostgreSQL

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
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Pricing Offerings
Db2	PostgreSQL
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

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Key User Insights
	Db2	PostgreSQL
Considered Both Products	IBM Verified User Chose Db2 Oracle and Microsoft are the ones that we have more to compare with and they are on par with Db2. postgres is the small solution that usually we leave behind and move to Db2. Mongo is the one that is different from what I used Db2 for but I know it has the capability to use … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Db2 Although each are good, DB2 provides greater scalability, flexibility for data integrity. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Db2 Db2 has overall stronger capabilities with data maintenance, governance and task scheduling, however Teradata has a more developed online community with more robust and timely customer support. The support and training capabilities and the user community where you can interact … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Db2 Compared to similar products, Db2 shared common Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS) features such as SQL support, data integrity, Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability (ACID) Compliance and concurrency control. However, the Db2 is designed for scalability, … Incentivized Helpful? Amit Jain Data Scientist in Information Technology at Wipro (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Db2 We are working for our product , where we were using different database but that database was not fast our work So we switch to IBM Db2 for better result. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Marcus Davage Lead Product Developer in Research & Development at BMC Software Ltd (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Db2 Db2 out-performs each one on performance, availability and scalability. Incentivized Helpful? Sean Ford Database Engineer in Information Technology at Shelter Insurance (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Db2 Price aspect is good with DB2, db2 Blu as was disappointing it couldn't compete with IQ. pureScale was disappointing and couldn't compete with Oracle RAC. Pros of using db2 is that it is admin friendly. Also it has a lot of flexibility with memory management which other RDMs … Incentivized Helpful? Sharang Dwivedi Database Engineer in Information Technology at Infosys Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) 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 Helpful? Miguel Sanjurjo Lead Expert Managed Platforms & Infrastructure in Information Technology at BITMARCK GmbH (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Db2 Superior in almost anyway except learning curve, marketing and deployment Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Db2 We are underway to evaluate both, in their benefits versus concerns. One thing that makes IBM Db2 better is it is a very mature database with great performance Incentivized Helpful? Siva Kumar Kapalavai OSS Lead in Engineering at Megaprot (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose Db2 Less in cost when bundled with IBM products Ease of use and maintenance Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful?	PostgreSQL Global Development Group David McCann Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Fast Orientation (Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees) Chose PostgreSQL MySQL - doesn't have transactional support for schema migrations, and has a more restrictive license DB2 - not free SQLite - doesn't have full foreign key constraint support Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PostgreSQL PostgreSQL works better than MySQL for analytics workflows where a massively parallel processing database architecture is necessary. We used PostgreSQL because it allows better scalability for querying and data analysis compared to the transactional database MySQL that we use. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Db2	PostgreSQL
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (90 ratings)	9.1 (54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.9 (12 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (7 ratings)	9.1 (7 ratings)
Availability	9.3 (64 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (12 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (6 ratings)	9.3 (7 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.2 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.6 (3 ratings)	9.0 (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)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

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