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As of March 2025, the mindshare of IBM Db2 Database in the Relational Databases Tools category stands at 7.0%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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SimonHiggins - PeerSpot user
Mainframe Technical Manager/Service Integration Lead at Saudi Business Machines
Verified user of IBM Db2 Database
Nov 28, 2021
Very scalable with high availability and excellent technical support

Pros

"I like that its true active-active. For example, if there are two instances within a cluster, we can take one of them down and there's no failover or switch over. There's no primary and secondary, it's true active-active. We can take one side down and we can upgrade that with new maintenance or a new version, obviously testing coexistence beforehand, without impacting the business."

Cons

"We just want a bit more integration with Linux. That said, we are already seeing Linux more readily available on the mainframe environment."
DD
Senior project manager (APAC region) at FreeBalance
Verified user of IBM Db2 Database
Feb 11, 2024
Offers good scalability, reliability and uptime

Pros

"Db2 database scalability and performance capabilities match our database needs. It covers pretty much everything a database administrator or engineer might need. "

Cons

"Db2 interface could be improved a bit. Comparing it to Oracle, Db2's interfaces could be improved. "
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Michael Raz - PeerSpot user
Consultant at Discount Bank
Verified user of IBM Db2 Database
Oct 28, 2024
Product version discussed: thirteen
Efficient access path optimization and performance excellence with helpful support

Pros

"The valuable features include access path optimization, excellent performance, a robust locking mechanism, parallelism, and effective buffering in memory."

Cons

"The usage of Db2 could be simplified, as it is quite complex and requires substantial knowledge of Db2 and zOS. "
ArpitKhare - PeerSpot user
Database Admin Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of IBM Db2 Database
May 29, 2024
Offers optimizer plan and ALSM features along with exceptional stability

Pros

"The newly added feature of ALSM is one of the top features"

Cons

"The vendor should offer a free version"
Md Al-Amin - PeerSpot user
Senior System Analyst at Thakral
Verified user of IBM Db2 Database
Sep 18, 2020
Almost maintenance-free and less expensive, but lacking in the area of development tools and resources

Pros

"it is very stable and runs smoothly once it is deployed and it is almost maintenance-free."

Cons

"The technical support team is not very good when compared to the efficiency of Oracle's support. "
SimonHiggins - PeerSpot user
Mainframe Technical Manager/Service Integration Lead at Saudi Business Machines
Verified user of IBM Db2 Database
Aug 29, 2024
Provides high availability and maintains active configuration across multiple servers

Pros

"As part of your licensing with IBM, you get access to their case system, which lets you raise incidents related to software or hardware. This system is helpful for problem determination and quickly identifying issues."

Cons

"IBM's support isn't as strong as it used to be, especially when it comes to providing fixes."
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Senior Systems Architect/Analyst/Developer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of IBM Db2 Database
Aug 31, 2021
Extremely scalable, extremely stable, and unhackable

Pros

"Your iOS, your throughputs, your performance cycles, you cannot touch it with Microsoft or with Oracle scalability-wise. That is far and away the most scalable systems and the highest performing systems of the set of them."

Cons

"Their view of it is they're maintaining it, they're continuing to upgrade it, they're continuing to grow it, however, they don't go out and try and sell that as an architectural solution the way they do Linux and Unix. "
MR
DBA at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Verified user of IBM Db2 Database
Aug 28, 2022
Product version discussed: 12
99.99% availability, highly scalable, and capable of supporting half a million transactions per second

Pros

"Its functionality and availability are valuable. Its availability is great. It is available 99.99% of the time. "

Cons

"The management of Db2 should be simplified because there are not too many specialists in this area, and the learning curve of Db2 specialists is very long. After the courses, probably it takes one and a half or two years to get to the point when you are using the product properly in the production systems. So, the complexity is very high, and the most important thing is to simplify the management of the product, including self-maintenance. They should simplify the installation, management, and monitoring to simplify the product. It takes too long for a person to be a specialist in this product."