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DB2
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use. Amount of data that can be stored and accessed.
What do you dislike about the product?
IBM DB2 tools for DBAs are not as user-friendly/intuitive as products from other vendors
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
End-user queriable data.
Simple and expandedable.
What do you like best about the product?
Simple and easy for engineers to design and build.
What do you dislike about the product?
We would like to see different security measures for healthcare being taken into consideration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM allows us to scale our business needs within the cloud and keep overall costs low but being able to utilize a stable model.
Db2 allowing us to be efficent, yet flexible
What do you like best about the product?
Db2's structure allows our company the capability to securely access data, while being flexible with the method being used.
What do you dislike about the product?
Db2, at times, reverts back to inefficient methods when upgrades are applied. for the most part, this has been due to lack of testing by the vendor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Db2 is the main transctional database for the enterprise, and currently use other IBM products to realize even better Analytics processing for marketing and clams processing. To that end, Db2 has saved our company in excess of a million dollars worth of CPU Chargeback per year.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
DB2 can be queired via XML streams as well as SQL. Based on the development path of your programmers, Db2 can be a great asset.
30 Years of DB2
What do you like best about the product?
I used SQL/DS and have been using DB2 since V1.0 As a strong implementation of E.F.Codd's Relational Algebra and Relational Calculas, DB2 evolved into a strong enterprise strenght Database system after IMS and its Network Rival IDMS. To date DB2 has evolved better and better and today at my enterprise has evolved into multi Billion SQL machine
What do you dislike about the product?
I have nothing against DB2 after 31 years
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SQL is a self documenting natural solution for businessproblems. We have large tables of Billions of Row to host our Healthcare applications
Push Back from Clients
What do you like best about the product?
It is embedded with EIA and within the PDOA
What do you dislike about the product?
A lot of clients have adopted large scale SQL or Oracle systems and see DB2 as an orphan DB
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Intelligence and Investigations
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Evaluate its utility with Geospatial
reliable database
What do you like best about the product?
This is such a wonderful place to store data for all platforms to access. It protected and available all of the time.
We never have issues with this platform
We never have issues with this platform
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the features need to be more mainframe centric such as the MERGE statement it was obviously taken from the LUW world
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
data that will be accessed via APIs and Web servicies
I like DB2
What do you like best about the product?
The way DB2 has evolved over time and been able to meet and keep up with needs as well as coming up with new ways of dealing with data
What do you dislike about the product?
when added to other products, it gets a little confusing - like ICPD
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
OLAP and OLTP
best RDBMS
What do you like best about the product?
performance, ability to control access plans when needed, row and column based. Shared disk or share nothing architecture.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unable to leverage standby HADR for full SQL.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many
My experience in the relational world
What do you like best about the product?
The availability and commercial support.
The number of DB2 Administrators and consultants was a plus.
Financial viability of IBM was also a factor
The number of DB2 Administrators and consultants was a plus.
Financial viability of IBM was also a factor
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation language and "IBM Think" phrasing makes it difficult sometimes to understand what is being explained.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Equity trading, various enterprise database needs in a large bank
DB2
What do you like best about the product?
DB2 is a very mature product with few bugs that hinder our utilization of the product.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am not aware of any current issues that we are encountering with our implementation of DB2.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We utilize DB2 for all of our back end processing. The speed with which we can process data is great.
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