We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Database and MySQL based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: MySQL is easy to use and free to download. In contrast, some reviewers feel that IBM Db2 is costly and not intuitive.
"The solution has many beneficial features, such as security, support, and stability."
"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 is stable."
"The setup process has become much easier recently."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be its availability."
"Its functionality and availability are valuable. Its availability is great. It is available 99.99% of the time."
"IBM DB2 pureScale Feature is valuable."
"It's the best solution in terms of security, performance, and availability because the system is available 24/7."
"Fully scalable and stable SQL-based RDBMS, with a straightforward and easy setup."
"The way that MySQL has improved my organization is that it comes free and also works fine on the technical side."
"It's a mature solution that's been around for decades."
"I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten since it has been running flawlessly."
"The solution helps us perform with our databases and extract data."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Compared to other databases, MySQL is cheaper and we were using the community edition which was free of cost. ML is fully integrated with the database in HeatWave. It has also many other features. MySQL is a far better solution in terms of pricing."
"We are completely comfortable with the database’s performance and it is a mature product. My organization was looking for an open-source database for our smaller customers like the community edition. For bigger customers, we can scale into commercial and supported editions."
"When I look at Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server provides me with better tools for database management."
"IBM's products tend to be quite costly, especially given the availability of free, open-source alternatives."
"The pricing could be improved, it's expensive."
"The user interface is not user-friendly."
"The initial setup could be improved."
"The solution's UI hasn't been upgraded. The solution’s UI is an area to improve because the solution was developed long ago."
"IBM Db2 Database could improve with better security."
"We just want a bit more integration with Linux. That said, we are already seeing Linux more readily available on the mainframe environment."
"Even for the best database, we always want the database to perform much better, so we wish MySQL would be much better, in terms of performance."
"The GUI could improve in MySQL."
"The integration with other systems can be improved as can the integration between other databases."
"MySQL could be improved by adding more automation."
"Clusters are hard to perform so we use no SQL alternates like MongoDB."
"Integration is a key feature in need of improvement."
"This solution needs to be improved when it comes to working with desktop applications on the developer side."
"There should be an arrangement for end-users to get trained to use the tool...Improvement-wise, a graphical interface could be added for new users, eliminating the need to memorize the complex syntax."
IBM Db2 Database is ranked 5th in Relational Databases Tools with 29 reviews while MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 28 reviews. IBM Db2 Database is rated 8.0, while MySQL is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Database writes "Very scalable with high availability and excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MySQL writes "A great open-source product that offers great scalability and compatibility". IBM Db2 Database is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, SAP HANA, Teradata and IBM Informix, whereas MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and Amazon Aurora. See our IBM Db2 Database vs. MySQL report.
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