We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Database and Oracle Database based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The scalability and availability of this solution are the most valuable features."
"It's a very mature product."
"We are dealing with millions of transactions a month and the performance is very good."
"IBM Db2 was much cheaper as a package than using other products. This is because IBM supplied a package with its product. It's an application. So it was much more efficient and a stronger competitor in that regard."
"The setup process has become much easier recently."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution has very good data compression of up to 50%. For example, if you have 50 terabytes of data, it can be reduced to 25 terabytes."
"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."
"Oracle is a stable product and we plan to continue implementing it."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud and API features."
"The scalability is very good, and it is stable."
"Oracle Database is fast and easy to use."
"It's very reliable."
"Partitioning is the most valuable feature."
"This solution is very reliable. The performance is great."
"Its security and reliability are most valuable."
"I would like to see better support for advanced analytics."
"The ease of use, or ease of management, could be improved."
"It would be helpful to have more querying tools and more development tools for us to work easily with Microsoft."
"The technical support can be faster."
"I would like to see some artificial intelligence brought into the solution."
"The licensing fees can be reduced."
"Performance is something that can be improved with DB2."
"I would say that the tool has to be made more cloud-friendly and should have agreements with AWS, Microsoft, or Google to run things on hyperscalers."
"The product is very expensive."
"The adaptability to various APIs is something that needs to be improved."
"There are plenty of options and features in this solution, but they are, somehow, not being used very well. Therefore, training and support should be increased and improved for this solution. They can make people aware of how to make proper use of their server so that people can optimize it because its cost is just too much. They can provide training on the policies and procedures to be used for archiving and all such things. There should be some kind of segregation in licensing. With a full license, all options should be available. There should also be a basic license with limited functionalities. This kind of basic license would be useful for us because we don't use most of the functionalities."
"Be informed of the known issues using My Oracle Support."
"It would be nice if creating indexes and other small, repetitive tasks could be automated."
"The solution can be quite expensive."
"The high availability features are a little complex to set up and manage."
"It needs to be more stable, as recently we have experienced some issues."
IBM Db2 Database is ranked 6th in Relational Databases Tools with 66 reviews while Oracle Database is ranked 2nd in Relational Databases Tools with 281 reviews. IBM Db2 Database is rated 8.2, while Oracle Database is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Database writes "Very scalable with high availability and excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database writes "Supports a large volume of transactions compared to other databases". IBM Db2 Database is most compared with SQL Server, SAP HANA, Teradata, MySQL and Oracle Database In-Memory, whereas Oracle Database is most compared with SAP HANA, SQL Server, MariaDB, Amazon Aurora and MySQL. See our IBM Db2 Database vs. Oracle Database report.
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