User Reviews of IBM Db2 Database & MySQL

Updated April 2025

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IBM Db2 Database review

SimonHiggins
SimonHiggins
Mainframe Technical Manager/Service Integration Lead at Saudi Business Machines
Very scalable with high availability and excellent technical support
The good thing is that there are improvements coming with later function levels for the z/OS Db2. I'd like it if, with the operating system that we've got, z/OS, on the mainframe, it would allow us to refresh the hardware to run Linux dockers on the mainframe. This means this might give us opportunities for different ways of coming into the...
MySQL review

Muzzamil  Hussain
Muzzamil Hussain
Assistant Vice President at National Bank of Pakistan
Native encryption ensures secure data management with a simple deployment
The most valuable feature is the on-premises data encryption facilities. By default, we can provide encryption, and this feature in MySQL is why we prefer it over other databases. The native encryption in MySQL encourages us to use this database model more frequently compared to Oracle and other databases. With Oracle, we have to buy...

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