IBM Db2 Warehouse vs Oracle Database Appliance comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Data Warehouse category. IBM is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.8. IBM holds a 2.0% mindshare in Data Warehouse, compared to Oracle’s 5.2% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

In the realm of data management solutions, IBM Db2 Warehouse and Oracle Database Appliance both offer robust options. While IBM Db2 Warehouse stands out in pricing and support, Oracle Database Appliance leads with its advanced features, making it a preferable choice for its comprehensive offering.

Features: IBM Db2 Warehouse offers strong analytics capabilities, seamless cloud integration, and high performance in handling large-scale data processes. Oracle Database Appliance provides a full-stack solution, integrated security, and features supporting high availability. Both products cater effectively to their respective strengths.

Room for Improvement: IBM Db2 Warehouse could enhance its cloud flexibility and integration capabilities. Oracle Database Appliance might consider streamlining its deployment process for better efficiency. Both could refine their pricing models to appeal to a broader segment of businesses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Db2 Warehouse is user-friendly with fast deployment options and strong customer service. Oracle Database Appliance, although requiring more initial setup, benefits from a pre-configured infrastructure that ensures reliability, with its support system being proficient in handling complex setups.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Db2 Warehouse is cost-effective upfront, offering favorable models for smaller enterprises, thereby providing quicker ROI. Oracle Database Appliance, with higher initial costs due to its extensive features, justifies the expense for larger businesses aiming for long-term growth potential.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Db2 Warehouse

Ranking in Data Warehouse

12th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Database Appliance

Ranking in Data Warehouse

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of IBM Db2 Warehouse is 2.0%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Database Appliance is 5.2%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ismail Aboulezz

Chief Executive Officer at LeaseWeb

Enhancements in data analysis and decision-making elevate overall performance

The most valuable features of IBM Db2 Warehouse ( /products/ibm-db2-warehouse-reviews ) include its availability, easy integration, ability to deal with a large size of data, excellent performance with no delays, powerful security mechanisms, and effective support. The response time is very quick, and the technical manuals and support from IBM are of high quality. Additionally, it is easy to install, troubleshoot, operate, and secure the environment.

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Charu Mazumdar

Technical Architect at DXC Technology

Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery

Oracle Database Appliance has simplified our database management tasks. Our clients are using the solution for high availability and disaster recovery. Our overall experience with the solution was good, especially the DR. Oracle Database Appliance's integrated storage solutions have enhanced our data management. Oracle Database Appliance's integration with other solutions was straightforward. We faced compatibility issues while moving from another device to this one, and the integration was not seamless. I would recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution an 8 out of 10.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is stable."

"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."

"It can be mounted on the cloud, which is a huge plus. If the client, for example, starts small with on-premise deployment and then it rapidly needs to grow, we can transfer this to the cloud easily."

"I think it scales really well and as long as you take enough time to learn a little bit about it, it works really well."

"Provides good security and reliability."

"The most valuable features of IBM Db2 Warehouse include its availability, easy integration, ability to deal with a large size of data, excellent performance with no delays, powerful security mechanisms, and effective support."

"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."

"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."

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"The database is solid."

"We primarily use it for OLTP, which has improved our costs."

"Oracle has good technical support."

"The solution's function we use to benefit the customers is database verification."

"NVM Express (NVMe) solid-state drives: This technology brings outstanding I/O performance for midsize databases. We have tested it by doing POCs on customer sites and the results were quite satisfying."

"The tool is a specific and effective system. I am impressed with its usability."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of dashboarding and ease of reporting."

"The performance of the system is the solution's most valuable aspect. In combination with the database, it gives perfect results. It's a better system than using other kinds of integrated systems. In general, the ODA control is much simpler to use and offers up the best performance."

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Cons

"The biggest problems we have is when the backup solution is failing or slow and we run out of log space, which has happened probably a couple of times in the last four years."

"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."

"Responding to support tickets takes a lot of time. It can range from two to four days, even for critical issues."

"There were some initial challenges with IBM Db2 Warehouse about eight months ago when I worked in this environment. When I coordinated with IBM support, they mentioned that the memory was insufficient for our needs. Our business environment required significantly more memory than the previous cluster could provide. Consequently, we have worked closely with on-site IBM technical personnel to address this issue."

"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."

"The biggest challenge anyone could have with Db2 Warehouse is their references or online resources and documentation. They are very, very, very limited on the web."

"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."

"The areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."

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"Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization."

"I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It has some problems. Databases are huge. This leads to needing more and more RAM and capacity resources, making it hard to scale. Because of this, we use Exadata. That's definitely a point for improvement."

"The product is quite complex to set up, initially. It would be ideal if it was simpler."

"The main thing would be to make ODA more affordable, to make it a more economical machine. Also, I would like to see virtualization, so you could implement all of your functions on one machine. Finally, improvement in the speed and performance would be good."

"I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions."

"It would be beneficial to have dedicated RAM included in the Oracle Database Appliance."

"I would be happy to see the Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) pre-installed in it instead of installing it in a separate machine."

"It isn't as popular as AWS, GCP, or Azure as it lacks scalability and cloud-native services like containerization."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In a traditional on-prem database, in a data warehouse, the solution is probably on the expensive side."

"I would rate the pricing a four on a scale of one (high price) to ten (low cost)."

"The product is costly."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing seven and a half or eight out of ten."

"The price of the solution should be less expensive. However, they will increase the price more."

"Leverage the Pay-As-You-Grow licensing, and consider using the ODA X6-2 S/M/L models also for SE2/SE."

"The price should be lower."

"Compared to Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance is affordable."

"The solution may be expensive, but when we consider the problems it solves, the stability it provides, and the fact that we don't have to buy separate parts and assemble them into a system, it becomes more affordable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

55%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Db2 Warehouse?

The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Db2 Warehouse?

The pricing for medium and large environments is almost the same as Oracle. I rate the pricing as six out of ten.

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What needs improvement with IBM Db2 Warehouse?

There is room for improvement in optimizing certain processes, but most issues arise from my data, hardware architecture, and resources, not from IBM Db2 Warehouse itself.

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What do you like most about Oracle Database Appliance?

Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database Appliance?

While I'm somewhat familiar with standard licensing, pricing isn't really my area of expertise. However, Oracle is on the higher end of the pricing spectrum, along with SAP.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Database Appliance?

There is room for improvement in better integration with third-party tools, such as Power BI or Redshift. When dealing with federated data sources, this integration can be a challenge.

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Compared 31% of the time

Oracle Exadata vs IBM Db2 Warehouse

Compared 30% of the time

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Compared 49% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

InfoSphere Warehouse, IBM InfoSphere Warehouse

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Overview

InfoSphere Warehouse is a suite of products that combines the strength of DB2 with a data warehousing infrastructure from IBM. You can use InfoSphere Warehouse to build a complete data warehousing solution that includes a highly scalable relational database, data access capabilities, and front-end analysis tools.

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Oracle Database Appliance is the easiest and most affordable way for small or medium-size organizations to run Oracle databases and applications and is an ideal platform for remote and edge computing environments. Customers reduce Oracle Database deployment times and management workloads using a prebuilt integrated system with management automation. As demonstrated in IDC’s business value study (PDF), Oracle Database Appliance lets customers grow revenue and control costs, delivering up to a 498% return on investment (ROI) over five years.

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