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Amazon Redshift vs IBM Db2 Warehouse comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Redshift
Ranking in Data Warehouse
6th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (7th), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (9th)
IBM Db2 Warehouse
Ranking in Data Warehouse
14th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Amazon Redshift is 4.2%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Db2 Warehouse is 2.6%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Redshift4.2%
IBM Db2 Warehouse2.6%
Other93.2%
Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Optimized restaurant analytics has driven faster insights and streamlined daily reporting
Amazon Redshift offers massive parallel processing capability, allowing it to handle millions of records, along with integration with other AWS features such as S3 and QuickSight. The column-level storage supports high performance and easy data retrieval compared to other tools. The integration with S3 has helped my team immensely since S3 is our starting source, and the direct integration with Amazon Redshift simplifies the transformation and loading process. Columnar storage has benefited our performance significantly, allowing us to extract specific rows from tables with years of data much faster than other tools with row-level storage. Amazon Redshift has positively impacted our organization by significantly improving query performance and speed. Features such as easy integration with S3 allow us to process millions of records efficiently, ultimately saving us nearly one hour per day for our project.
Sherpard  Muzuva - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Manager at SYSTEMS INTEGRATED LTD (SYMPHONY)
Advanced features enhance business intelligence, but complex management calls for improved user guidance
While my experience with IBM Db2 Warehouse is somewhat limited, when compared to other databases such as Oracle, there are areas for improvement. They need to enhance the database to make it more user-friendly and easier to master. They should implement a more comprehensive graphical user interface with additional features. For instance, when users encounter problems, the system should provide better guidelines and troubleshooting directions, except for hardware-related issues. They need to implement tools that would help users perform basic troubleshooting rather than solely relying on support. Other databases have features where users can investigate specific issues using error codes. From my experience, many minor issues could be resolved before escalating to support.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is very easy to dump data into the tool."
"I found the Amazon Redshift computing services easy. I found the computing instances the most incredible in the solution."
"Amazon Redshift is reliable and has high availability."
"You can copy JSON to the column and have it analyzed using simple functions."
"I have primarily used the Redshift Spectrum feature and found it most valuable."
"I work in the real estate industry, and the best features I appreciate about Amazon Redshift include its efficiency in managing large datasets."
"We have found Machine Learning use cases are very nice."
"Redshift's versioning and data security are the two most critical features; when migrating into the cloud, it's vital to secure the data, and the encryption and security are there."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse is more resilient when dealing with business intelligence applications."
"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"The solution works with big data, so it's pretty scalable."
"The solution is stable."
"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"If you have good people designing how the data is stored, it's a marvelous tool."
"It can be mounted on the cloud, which is a huge plus. If the client, for example, starts small with on-premise deployment and then it rapidly needs to grow, we can transfer this to the cloud easily."
 

Cons

"The refreshment rate of data reaching Redshift from other sources should be faster."
"Improvement could be made in the area of streaming data. The capability can definitely be improved."
"This solution could be cheaper, but Amazon could constantly add new instances and decrease the size from previous ones, so it could be an AWS work model."
"The main issue people complain about, and I agree with the claim, is that it's hard to load your data into it."
"We did encounter stability issues, i.e., if you are using more than 25 nodes (ds2.xlarge), the cluster is totally unstable."
"The only minor issue I faced was that it took a bit longer than expected to change the cluster to have more space or storage."
"Amazon Redshift could improve the user interface support."
"One of my previous customers told me they were migrating off Redshift because they hit the ceiling and had scalability issues."
"The biggest challenge anyone could have with Db2 Warehouse is their references or online resources and documentation. They are very, very, very limited on the web."
"It takes a long time to have a new version or release, similar to Oracle."
"The areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"I previously used DataStage, which I think is better than InfoSphere Warehouse."
"The primary challenges customers face with IBM Db2 Warehouse are related to its complexity in usage. It requires highly skilled professionals who understand Db2, and both training and support are challenging to obtain."
"The biggest problems we have is when the backup solution is failing or slow and we run out of log space, which has happened probably a couple of times in the last four years."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My customers have implementations that cost about $500 a month for a very small one. I also have a customer with a monthly invoice of about $25,000 USD."
"The solution has very competitive pricing."
"The cost will depend on how you set up your warehouse and what kind of data you store."
"I have heard complaints about the solution’s pricing, and thus I rate it as a five."
"Per hour pricing is helpful to keep the costs of a pilot down, but long-term retention is expensive."
"Pricing for Amazon Redshift is reasonable, though it could be somewhat higher than other solutions, such as Azure. Still, when you base your comparison on the services offered and the pricing, it's the most reasonable versus its competitors, such as RDS."
"In comparison to the price of similar solutions, Redshift's cost is the lowest."
"The price of Amazon Redshift is reasonable because it depends on the usage that you use and for DWH for the long term."
"In a traditional on-prem database, in a data warehouse, the solution is probably on the expensive side."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Construction Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise30
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

How does Amazon Redshift compare with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?
Amazon Redshift is very fast, has a very good response time, and is very user-friendly. The initial setup is very straightforward. This solution can merge and integrate well with many different dat...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Redshift?
My experience with pricing and setup cost is satisfactory, as we have been loyal clients of Amazon since the beginning of our organization. However, I am not aware of the exact costs associated wit...
What needs improvement with Amazon Redshift?
Amazon Redshift could improve by enhancing its UI to be more user-friendly for non-technical users and by offering better cost management, as similar tools tend to be less expensive. Additionally, ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Db2 Warehouse?
The pricing for medium and large environments is almost the same as Oracle. I rate the pricing as six out of ten.
What needs improvement with IBM Db2 Warehouse?
While my experience with IBM Db2 Warehouse is somewhat limited, when compared to other databases such as Oracle, there are areas for improvement. They need to enhance the database to make it more u...
What is your primary use case for IBM Db2 Warehouse?
The main advantages of IBM Db2 Warehouse become apparent when dealing with business intelligence applications. I worked with it when it was installed for one of our customers, a utilities company, ...
 

Also Known As

No data available
InfoSphere Warehouse, IBM InfoSphere Warehouse
 

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Sample Customers

Liberty Mutual Insurance, 4Cite Marketing, BrandVerity, DNA Plc, Sirocco Systems, Gainsight, Blue 449
Alameda County Social Services Agency, Sui Southern Gas Company Limited
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