IBM Db2 Warehouse vs Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse comparison

IBM Db2 Warehouse vs. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse

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IBM Db2 Warehouse

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

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Data Warehouse (11th)

Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

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Cloud Data Warehouse (12th)

Featured Reviews

Sherpard Muzuva

Senior Technical Manager- IBM Enterprise Systems 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.

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Kwajah Mohiuddin

Global Head of Architecture at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Provides self-repair features, but the setup is complex

We use the product for online applications. We use it in the financial industry The product has self-repair features. The tool tunes itself. It separates compute from storage. We can scale storage and compute separately. The setup is complex. Oracle is a complex tool. I have been using Oracle…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."

"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."

"I think it scales really well and as long as you take enough time to learn a little bit about it, it works really well."

"IBM Db2 Warehouse is more resilient when dealing with business intelligence applications."

"The most valuable features of IBM Db2 Warehouse include its availability, easy integration, ability to deal with a large size of data, excellent performance with no delays, powerful security mechanisms, and effective support."

"The solution is stable."

"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."

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"The solution is self-securing. All data is encrypted and security updates and patches are applied automatically both periodically and off-cycle."

"The performance and scalability are awesome."

"The analytics have been very good. We've found them to be quite useful."

"The solution is used for analytics and it works for our data security needs."

"A very good integration feature that restricts access to unauthorized people."

"It is an extremely scalable solution since you can dynamically change the resources as some other cloud solutions."

"It is a very stable tool...It is an extremely scalable tool."

"It provides Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) capabilities by default to address data security issues."

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Cons

"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."

"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."

"Responding to support tickets takes a lot of time. It can range from two to four days, even for critical issues."

"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."

"There were some initial challenges with IBM Db2 Warehouse about eight months ago when I worked in this environment. When I coordinated with IBM support, they mentioned that the memory was insufficient for our needs. Our business environment required significantly more memory than the previous cluster could provide. Consequently, we have worked closely with on-site IBM technical personnel to address this issue."

"It takes a long time to have a new version or release, similar to Oracle."

"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."

"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."

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"My main suggestion for Oracle is the configuration and key values that come for JSON files. When we create a table, especially if you see in our RedShift or some other stuff, if I create a table on top of a JSON file with multiple array columns or superset columns, those column values create some difficulty in Oracle."

"The solution could be improved by allowing for migration tools from other cloud services, including migration from Amazon Redshift, RDS, and Aurora."

"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is not available as an on-premises solution."

"It doesn't work well when you have unstructured data or you need online analytics. It is not as nice as Hadoop in these aspects."

"I would like to see Application Express and Oracle R Enterprise fully supported, and I would like to see Oracle Data Mining supported as a front end."

"A lot of the tools that were previously there have now been taken away."

"I would like to see an on-premise solution in the future."

"It is very important the integration with other platforms be made to be as easy as it is with an on-premises deployment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In a traditional on-prem database, in a data warehouse, the solution is probably on the expensive side."

"The cost is perfect with Oracle Universal credit."

"You pay as you go, and you don't pay for services that you don't use."

"The solution is expensive."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."

"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."

"Cloud solutions are cheaper, but in the long run, they may not be much cheaper. They certainly have a lower initial cost. The licensing is yearly, and it is based on the size of the hardware and the number of users."

"The licensing cost of the product can vary since you can integrate it very easily with other products or other cloud products...You pay as you use it, so it is not yearly or monthly payments to be made toward Oracle."

"In terms of architecture and pricing structure, I feel it is a little bit costly compared to Azure. It's fine compared to RedShift, but compared to Azure, it's a bit pricey when you calculate for one TB storage plus around five hours of reporting with the frequency of 1TB data. The cost adds up, making Oracle a bit expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

27%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Retailer

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

University

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Db2 Warehouse?

The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data.

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?

What do you like most about Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

With Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, things are much simpler. Creating a structure, initializing the servers, extending the servers, those are all things that are very, very easy. That's the main...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support.

What needs improvement with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not supported, which is not ideal.

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Also Known As

InfoSphere Warehouse, IBM InfoSphere Warehouse

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Overview

InfoSphere Warehouse is a suite of products that combines the strength of DB2 with a data warehousing infrastructure from IBM. You can use InfoSphere Warehouse to build a complete data warehousing solution that includes a highly scalable relational database, data access capabilities, and front-end analysis tools.

IBM

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is the world’s first and only autonomous database optimized for analytic workloads, including data marts, data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. With Autonomous Data Warehouse, data scientists, business analysts, and nonexperts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size and type. Built for the cloud and optimized using Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Data Warehouse benefits from faster performance and, according to an IDC report (PDF), lowers operational costs by an average of 63%.

Autonomous Database provides the foundation for a data lakehouse—a modern, open architecture that enables you to store, analyze, and understand all your data. The data lakehouse combines the power and richness of data warehouses with the breadth, flexibility, and low cost of popular open source data lake technologies. Access your data lakehouse through Autonomous Database using the world's most powerful and open SQL processing engine.

Oracle

Sample Customers

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IBM Db2 Warehouse vs. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse