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The IBM® Db2® pureScale® on AWS feature eliminates unplanned downtime by providing your mission critical workloads with continuous availability, application transparency, and shared cluster scale out, keeping your data always-on and high performant at scale.
Overview
Mission critical workloads require continuous availability at scale. With best-in-class failure detection and recovery, eliminate unplanned downtime while achieving high performance with IBM® Db2® pureScale®. pureScale® leverages the IBM® Db2® parallel sysplex architecture, providing mainframe-class continuous availability that runs anywhere, whenever you need it. pureScale® enables shared cluster scale out, starting with a small cluster, and allowing you to grow your workloads as much or as little as you need. With IBM® Db2® pureScale® there are no application changes to make, data to redistribute, or performance tuning to do. Provide application transparency through automatic load balancing across all active members. Achieve optimal resource utilization at all times, which helps to keep application response times low, while reducing the risk and cost of application changes. Start building more, while managing less.
Highlights
- Cluster of any size ready in minutes.
- Dramatic reduction in total cost of ownership.
- Disaster Recovery with extreme ease.
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Db2 pureScale on AWS
This pureScale cluster deployment sets up three Db2 members (five for the largest deployments) and two CFs, in a newly created VPC. Applications can connect to the pureScale cluster from within this VPC, from other VPCs or via VPN through the VPC transit gateway.
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Db2 version uplift
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Usage instructions
Applications to connect to Db2 server through one of the mechanism documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1?topic=developing-code-accessing-managing-data . To connect to the operating system, use SSH and the Db2 instance name.
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Andres B.
it seems to me that platform for database management
Reviewed on Aug 05, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
IBM Db2 offers me performance, also stability when talking about a lot of data.
What do you dislike about the product?
perhaps its interface is not as intuitive as other databases
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
the topic of handling large volumes of data and in my case it helps me in the management of relational databases
Mohamed Ghazali M.
Banking and Financial Services High-volume transaction processing using IBM DB2
Reviewed on Jul 20, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
High Performance & Scalability
Optimized for both OLTP and OLAP workloads.
Supports in-memory processing and advanced indexing
Advanced Compression
Industry-leading data compression helps reduce storage costs.
AI Integration & Modern Features
Built-in AI and machine learning capabilities with Db2 AI and Watson integration.
Supports JSON, Graph, and REST APIs
Security & Compliance
Granular access control, native encryption, and support for regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
Flexibility in Deployment
Available on-premises, on IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and as Db2 Warehouse for analytics.
Autonomic Capabilities
Self-tuning memory and workload management reduce manual DBA effort.
Optimized for both OLTP and OLAP workloads.
Supports in-memory processing and advanced indexing
Advanced Compression
Industry-leading data compression helps reduce storage costs.
AI Integration & Modern Features
Built-in AI and machine learning capabilities with Db2 AI and Watson integration.
Supports JSON, Graph, and REST APIs
Security & Compliance
Granular access control, native encryption, and support for regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
Flexibility in Deployment
Available on-premises, on IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and as Db2 Warehouse for analytics.
Autonomic Capabilities
Self-tuning memory and workload management reduce manual DBA effort.
What do you dislike about the product?
Steep Learning Curve
Especially for non-IBM environments or teams not familiar with mainframe technologies.
Cost
Licensing can be high for enterprise features and support.
Ecosystem Limitations
Compared to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or even Microsoft SQL Server, the open-source ecosystem and third-party integrations are limited.
UI/Tooling
While improved (e.g., with Data Studio or Db2 Console), some tools feel dated compared to modern competitors.
Especially for non-IBM environments or teams not familiar with mainframe technologies.
Cost
Licensing can be high for enterprise features and support.
Ecosystem Limitations
Compared to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or even Microsoft SQL Server, the open-source ecosystem and third-party integrations are limited.
UI/Tooling
While improved (e.g., with Data Studio or Db2 Console), some tools feel dated compared to modern competitors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High-Volume Transaction Processing
Db2 offers ACID-compliant transactions with high concurrency control and performance optimization
Storage Optimization
Db2 provides industry-leading compression technologies
Db2 offers ACID-compliant transactions with high concurrency control and performance optimization
Storage Optimization
Db2 provides industry-leading compression technologies
Information Technology and Services
Good experience with DB2 with IBM Spectrum Control
Reviewed on Jun 26, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It´s easy to use, the DB2 is easy to upgrade and manage, all instructions are well documented on the IBM knowledge portal and also the support of the software is awesome, they solve your problems when you have them.
What do you dislike about the product?
I had an issue after a reboot, where the domain of the server changed and the DB2 wasn´t functioning correctly, so we had to change the domain and the device was up and running, we didn´t why that happened.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It help us with the software IBM Spectrum Control, it´s a good way to manage the software data for monitoring devices.
Raul G.
Administer DB2
Reviewed on Mar 27, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Many utilities that facilitate usage, in addition to improving the performance of some tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some tasks like traces are a bit complicated in addition to the need for IBM for reading and understanding.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Optimization of business processes.
Astra S.
Db2: High Availability and OLTP Powerhouse
Reviewed on Mar 07, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
IBM Db2 is excellent for high availability and disaster recovery strategies particularly with HADR and Q replication for near real-time failover. The row-level locking mechanism optimizes OLTP workloads, ensuring efficient concurrency control without excessive blocking.
What do you dislike about the product?
Db2’s cloud-native integration lags behind modern cloud-first databases like Aurora or Spanner. Although IBM provides Db2 on Cloud, its Kubernetes operator lacks the automation maturity seen in competitors like CockroachDB or YugabyteDB.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The native columnar storage for analytical workloads allows for hybrid OLTP and OLAP processing, reducing the need for separate analytics databases.