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Ibm Db2
What do you like best about the product?
run on all available platforms, rather than just Windows-based platforms optimizes performance by making adjustments on the fly to the database memory and buffer pools with no requirement for human intervention
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard to find good DB2 DBAs quickly for a new project unlike Oracle or SQL-Server DBAs. Up-skilling Oracle DBAs to DB2 is easy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have worked almost my entire career as a DB2 LUW Architect & DBA and leading small and big teams of DBAs and DB2 specialists
Meh
What do you like best about the product?
Db2 database is painful to use but it works
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface, the not so user friendly tools available to customize clients
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our entire system is db2
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Please make sure you have the right client
Robust database
What do you like best about the product?
Db2 is one of the robust databases for data analysis and query
What do you dislike about the product?
Ease of building application over this db and expensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Operational data store
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Expensive and it should support easy access to third party tools
Nice database
What do you like best about the product?
Easy connection to the database, great scalability and performance
What do you dislike about the product?
At first glance not so easy, but then you get used to it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The database we use at work is db2.Fast connection, good input for any errors you might have
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's usually easy to spot the errors
Very comparable to SQL Server but not the best
What do you like best about the product?
In my opinion Oracle is the best. It supports the most programming languages and has the best features. Db2 is the next best thing. It’s useful across all ibm host environments. Companies with an ibm mainframe often use db2.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does t have map reductio pin or immediate consistency like sql and oracle do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Don’t have any problems other than small integration issues which would persist on all databases
DB2 since 1992
What do you like best about the product?
DB2 has a graphical monitor that allows you to observe the execution time of an SQL statement and correct details to improve performance.
It allows managing both conventional relational data and XML data without the need for transformation, a capability that is unique in the market.
It allows managing both conventional relational data and XML data without the need for transformation, a capability that is unique in the market.
What do you dislike about the product?
Slowness in creating and executing queries. It uses a lot of RAM for installations and software usage. DB2 has a high economic cost for personal licenses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows to speed up the response time of a query
Retrieval using index-only access.
Correlated predicates.
It has summary tables, replicated tables, hash joins, and uses a combination of external security and internal access control to protect data.
Retrieval using index-only access.
Correlated predicates.
It has summary tables, replicated tables, hash joins, and uses a combination of external security and internal access control to protect data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is undoubtedly one of the best databases.
Robust, estable and excellent ability to manage high volumes of data
What do you like best about the product?
It has an excellent ability to manage high volumes of data and is easy to use, the tool is friendly to the end customer
What do you dislike about the product?
the installation is usually a bit tedious, it requires very implicit professional knowledge to be able to use the tool and requires a high level of hardware so that it can work effectively
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides considerable robustness, additionally, it has the ability to handle high volumes of data, it is highly recommended to be implemented in systems of financial entities and large companies
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a viable alternative to manage data for financial entities and large companies
Love DB2
What do you like best about the product?
It is low maintenance and great for our SAP landscape.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not many programmers around that can understand that the language.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's best for use in a BW landscape for reporting purposes where you need fast data fetching. As compared to other traditional DBs, I feel DB2 is lightweight and less complicated.
Simple straight forward
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about db2 is that it's easy to learn and query with.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much that I don't like about db2.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Store data
Easy to use software
What do you like best about the product?
The DB is easy to configure and setup. Table creation is straight forward and can be appended easily. The primary, secondary and tertiary keys are configurable and function good. The queries are easy to fetch and give accurate results. The DB itself is scalable and ease of use is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI of the DB doesn't render well for all devices and some work is required to be done on that front.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaboration, DB setup and use.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to use DB and on the cloud helps the scalability.
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