Db2 Pricing

“This service is available 24/7 and has never had problems or errors for a single moment; this is one of the things that continues to motivate the company to continue paying for this IBM license,... … Low license administration cost.”

“Reducing maintenance cost and gives us the superb ROI.”

“It is very robust and hence [provides] value for money Also has a free version that is very robust for a smaller organization Used a centralized DB2 database across the organization and hence saved...”

“The AI powered optimizer helps in minizing the query cost and providing the better execution plan.”

“All business cases with the focus of moving our existing Db2 LUW to a different RDBMS product (be it vendor or open source) resulted in clearly negative impact, i.e. high migration cost at zero... … But then, I design and implement large scale, highly standardized, enterprise-ready estates with the goal of cost-effectively operating thousands of databases.”

“At the moment I use DB2 for studies so I opted for the DB2 Community license, it is simple and free.”

“The new IBM PureData system for Analytics is on Netezza, which is a great appliance and easy-to-use & supports Business Intelligence and DSS systems at a cheaper cost.”

“In general though, it is an Enterprise solution, meaning that the licensing cost can be hard to shoulder for smaller companies, which coupled with the lack of trained engineers on it, make it less...”

“Cost saving and efficiency with scalability Higher initial investment and complexity Enhanced data governance and compliance.”

“Licensing can be an issue due to the high value of the premium version.”

“It is, in fact, a standard among relational DBs because the price/performance ratio is very positive for us.”