We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Database and SQL Server based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: IBM Db2 Database has an edge in this comparison due to the high marks it received for its performance. Reviewers are happier with the pricing of SQL Server, however.
"It has a good feature called pureScale, which is just for scalability. It is a perfect solution for environments where scalability is going to be an issue."
"The performance of the solution is valuable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its compatibility with IBM Power Systems."
"I believe that because the support is good, they jump in and assist us in determining the root cause."
"The solution is easy to install and simple to maintain. The most valuable aspect of the solution is its general user-friendliness for users of all kinds."
"The newly added feature of ALSM is one of the top features"
"it is very stable and runs smoothly once it is deployed and it is almost maintenance-free."
"The installation is really easy."
"I haven't really experienced any issues that required the assistance of technical support."
"I use it to fine tune my procedures and functions."
"I like that it's relatively stable."
"SQL Server is very good, it can be used as a transactional database and used to support the data warehouse. Additionally, the ANSI-compliant satisfies our database properties."
"SQL Server has good performance. It is one of the best features."
"It works fine in terms of performance and stability."
"I use the menu on the management view credit section to get information from the database."
"The pricing could be improved, it's expensive."
"The product’s user interface is not easy to use."
"The technical support team is not very good when compared to the efficiency of Oracle's support."
"It would be helpful to have a hybrid data storage facility that includes NoSQL technologies."
"I would like to see some artificial intelligence brought into the solution."
"The solution could be more modern and have updated database technology."
"They should simplify the management of Db2 as a relational database system. There should be the simplification of management. This is probably one of the most important asks for being successful in the future."
"Also, the website could be more intuitive. I didn't find it easy to find documentation on the website."
"We pay a license fee, it could always be cheaper."
"It would be great if we were able to run it on multiple operating systems and not only stick with Windows."
"We need it to support Linux for better troubleshooting flexibility."
"The performance needs some improvement and it needs more features integrated into it."
"It needs to be improved to handle big data for large volumes of transactions for big industries. As compared to Oracle Database, SQL Server is not suitable for big data or large organizations where the database size could be more than 100 GB or more. In our country, for a large database and a large volume of transactions, we normally use Oracle Database. Most of the large banks are shifting from SQL Server to Oracle Database because of its slowness."
"The number of concurrent users is too limited and other databases are better than SQL in this regard."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for SQL Server."
"The pricing and quality of the product could be improved."
IBM Db2 Database is ranked 6th in Relational Databases Tools with 67 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. IBM Db2 Database is rated 8.2, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. 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 SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". IBM Db2 Database is most compared with Oracle Database, SAP HANA, Teradata, MySQL and Oracle Database In-Memory, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and Teradata. See our IBM Db2 Database vs. SQL Server report.
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