We performed a comparison between Exasol and IBM Db2 Database based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"Its speed is great."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"The speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"It is easy to scale."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be its availability."
"Db2 database scalability and performance capabilities match our database needs. It covers pretty much everything a database administrator or engineer might need."
"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."
"Db2's best features are that it's self-maintaining and self-monitoring, which means I have to view and monitor the database far less often."
"The solution has very good data compression of up to 50%. For example, if you have 50 terabytes of data, it can be reduced to 25 terabytes."
"Db2 Database has given us good results since we have started to use it. We predominantly use IBM hardware, and this is one of the reasons why we started to use Db2 Database. Db2 Database has a very good HADR capability. High availability resilience is also good in this solution. It also has pureScale, which allows you to upgrade one node to get very good and high-level resilience. If you are using a database on five nodes, you can take one node down, upgrade that, and let that node up. You can then bring the second node down, upgrade that, and so on."
"it is very stable and runs smoothly once it is deployed and it is almost maintenance-free."
"It's a very mature product."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"The capabilities of this solution could improve."
"The problem with this environment is that any software that you install is very costly because there are no free tools for this environment."
"The technical support team is not very good when compared to the efficiency of Oracle's support."
"Their view of it is they're maintaining it, they're continuing to upgrade it, they're continuing to grow it, however, they don't go out and try and sell that as an architectural solution the way they do Linux and Unix."
"In terms of improvements, IBM Db2 can improve its interface and its functionality. Also, the embedded functions should be much richer than the current ones - the functions which are embedded in the engine itself."
"IBM Db2 Database could improve the user-defined functions. There are some user-defined functions that are missing, such as the spring functions. I used to have Teradata for my projects and I was used to working in the environment. They had a good set of user-defined functions."
"The application development requires a Java developer and not every company has these resources."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration."
Exasol is ranked 12th in Relational Databases Tools with 8 reviews while IBM Db2 Database is ranked 6th in Relational Databases Tools with 66 reviews. Exasol is rated 8.0, while IBM Db2 Database is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Exasol writes "Fast query processing and easy-to-store all the data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Db2 Database writes "Very scalable with high availability and excellent technical support". Exasol is most compared with SAP HANA, SQL Server, Vertica, Oracle Database In-Memory and MySQL, whereas IBM Db2 Database is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, SAP HANA, Teradata and MySQL. See our Exasol vs. IBM Db2 Database report.
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