--- description: Review of IBM Db2 Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: IBM Db2 | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Database Software](/directory/4512/database-management-systems/software) > [IBM Db2](/software/395515/ibm-db2) # IBM Db2 Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/395515/ibm-db2 Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/395515/ibm-db2?page=2) > IBM Db2 is an AI-enabled hybrid data management suite, which helps organizations manage both structured and unstructured data across cloud and on-premise environments. Features include data encryption, uptime monitoring, automated schema generation and data migration. With IBM Db2, professionals can gain insights about customer behavior and track opportunities using predictive analysis. IBM Db2 on Cloud offers a host of features such as data federation, point-in-time recovery and HADR with multizone region support, which enables developers to handle workloads. Team members can protect data with built-in self-service snapshots or geo-replicated data recovery backups. It comes with an on-demand cloud service, IBM Db2 Hosted, which lets users optimize queries and perform in-memory processing of transactional and analytical operations. IBM Db2 offers a variety of pricing plans for its solutions and extends support via documentation and discussion forum. > > Verdict: Rated **4.4/5** by 51 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.4/5** | 51 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: IBM ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 1,000.00 - **Pricing Details**: Pricing is based per instance. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Backup and Recovery - Data Dictionary Management - Data Migration - Data Storage Management - Data Virtualization - Database Conversion - ETL - Extract Transfer Load - In-Database Processing - In-Memory Processing - Monitoring - Real-Time Analytics - Relational Database Management ## Category - [Database Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4512/database-management-systems/software) ## Related Categories - [Database Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4512/database-management-systems/software) - [Data Warehouse Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/3789/data-warehouse/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Students can not create account if they use school common IP workstation when accessing cloud.ibm.com. > > We already solved the problem of download/install procedure to use the DBMS. Student need no installation on cloud setup. ----- ### "Proven for enterprise workloads" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *16 April 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: - ACID compliant like any good RDBMS (Oracle, MSSQL, SAP HANA) - Runs well and scales well on IBM's Power-based platform, and commodity x86 hardware running Linux/Windows - Various editions to suit customer needs and requirements. For example the Developer Edition is fully featured and is completely free for developers to use, or all the way to Enterprise Edition for state-of-the-art functionality (In-Memory based Columnar Tables thru its BLU functionality, High-Availability, Disaster Recovery etc. to prevent Single-Points-of-Failure). Rivals the existing enterprise RDBMS's > > **Cons**: - Even though there is a GUI for point-and-click administration (IBM Data Studio), to really flex the database's features and functionality command-line tools are required (like Oracle :-) > > Have used DB2 as a Relational Database (RDBMS) for the past 10 years, primarily to support SAP based enterprise workloads. IBM's development of DB2 has been fuelled by one of its largest customers - SAP. As such this review will be biased towards SAP. I started with DB2 7.5 on IBM's flagship AIX Operating System, and it has come a long way. These days AIX is dead (unfortunately), and IBM's Power platform is leveraging Linux. DB2 of course supports the big-endian based Power platforms, and the little-endian based x86 platforms that run both Linux and Windows. DB2 is very versatile as a database, and supports most features that enterprise-based databases like Oracle support. It really is a matter of choice. DB2 administrators are obviously not as easy to find as Oracle's, but so long as the DBA's have good knowledge they can be cross-trained easily. ----- ### "Good DBMS" — 3.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *31 March 2018* | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Has great features, it's easy to use, if you need to manage larg amount of data this should be your option > > **Cons**: Requires a lot of cpu and Ram which is some cases is now possible, the interface might be called obsolete ----- ### "The reliable RDMS for Legacy systems" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *19 December 2021* | Information Services | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **Pros**: Use it if you are using a Mainframe OS. The navigation is not too complex considering a minimalistic UI. > > **Cons**: The query speed and result retrieval is a pain point. May be they can introduce an instant results UI page on the Mainframes. ----- ### "Great product, easy to install and use. Been using it for 6 years in different projects." — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *7 May 2018* | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Installation is very easy and when installed it's ease of use, very convenient. It's also very easy to connect to other tools like DBVisualizer which gives another way of viewing the tables and info. > > **Cons**: They need to improve the help online to find some commands, and the explanation on the commands as well. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/395515/ibm-db2?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/395515/ibm-db2) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data