IBM Db2 Warehouse vs Oracle Big Data Appliance comparison

IBM and Oracle are both solutions in the Data Warehouse category. IBM is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.0. IBM holds a 3.2% mindshare in Data Warehouse, compared to Oracle’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

IBM Db2 Warehouse

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81% willing to recommend

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75% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

IBM Db2 Warehouse and Oracle Big Data Appliance are competing in data management and analytics. IBM Db2 Warehouse often gains the upper hand with its cost-effectiveness and robust customer service, while Oracle Big Data Appliance is noted for its comprehensive features.

Features: IBM Db2 Warehouse supports advanced in-database analytics, scalable design, and seamless integration with IBM Cloud services. Oracle Big Data Appliance is equipped to handle large datasets efficiently, offers robust security, and provides a comprehensive suite of analytics tools.

Room for Improvement: IBM Db2 Warehouse can improve by offering more diverse analytics tools, enhancing the scalability of its on-premise version, and providing more extensive security features. Oracle Big Data Appliance could benefit from simplifying its deployment process, reducing its reliance on specialized hardware, and making its user interface more intuitive.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Db2 Warehouse provides a straightforward deployment experience with flexible cloud models and is bolstered by strong customer service. Oracle Big Data Appliance, while offering an intricate deployment process that often requires specialized hardware, ensures smooth integration through extensive customer support.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Db2 Warehouse is appealing with its accessible pricing structure and favorable ROI, making it attractive to cost-conscious enterprises. Oracle Big Data Appliance, despite being more expensive upfront, is seen as a long-term investment due to its expansive feature set that can yield higher ROI over time.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Db2 Warehouse

Ranking in Data Warehouse

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Big Data Appliance

Ranking in Data Warehouse

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of IBM Db2 Warehouse is 3.2%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Big Data Appliance is 2.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Warehouse Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM Db2 Warehouse	3.2%
Oracle Big Data Appliance	2.0%
Other	94.8%

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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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reviewer1031826

Analytics Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Platinum partnership leverages advanced storage and fosters seamless data integration

Areas of Oracle Big Data Appliance that can be improved include the pricing perspective because nowadays they have competition. We have so many technologies that have come to the market for less than even one-fourth or one-fifth of the Oracle price. For my side, the last time I worked with Oracle was in '21, '22. The price is a challenge that they have to look after. From the storage and data management perspective, I cannot recall anything that they have to improve, but they have to improve the visualization part significantly because they offer Oracle BI, which is an extremely not-matured application.

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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

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

"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."

"Provides good security and reliability."

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

"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."

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

"The solution is stable."

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

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"This is a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy."

"The best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."

"The best feature of Oracle Big Data Appliance, from a price perspective for the storage, is because they have technology called the ZFS technology; it offers huge storage with a decent price."

"Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard."

Cons

"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."

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

"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 areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."

"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."

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

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

More IBM Db2 Warehouse cons

"From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera."

"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."

"The product should be simplified for the average user."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Oracle's prices are too high compared to others in the market."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

29%

Manufacturing Company

University

Government

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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	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

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.

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What needs improvement with IBM Db2 Warehouse?

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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, ...

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What needs improvement with Oracle Big Data Appliance?

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Big Data Appliance?

The typical use case for Oracle Big Data Appliance, which my clients use, is usually that the customer who has an Oracle application uses it because they can leverage the storage part. I don't need...

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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.

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Oracle Big Data Appliance is a flexible, high-performance, secure platform for running diverse workloads on Hadoop and NoSQL systems. With Oracle Big Data SQL, Oracle Big Data Appliance extends Oracle’s industry-leading implementation of SQL to Hadoop and NoSQL systems. By combining the newest technologies from the Hadoop ecosystem and powerful Oracle SQL capabilities together on a single pre-configured platform, Oracle Big Data Appliance is uniquely able to support rapid development of new Big Data applications and tight integration with existing relational data.

For more information on Oracle Big Data Appliance, visit Oracle.com

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