IBM DB2 AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Business Intelligence Tools

The best Business Intelligence alternative to IBM DB2 is CockroachDB, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to IBM DB2 and 15 are Business Intelligence Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Business Intelligence Tool alternatives to IBM DB2 are Azure Cosmos DB, Google Cloud BigQuery, Amazon Redshift and Vertica.

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IBM DB2 alternatives are mainly Relational Databases but may also be Database Management Tools or Business Intelligence Tools. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of IBM DB2.

IBM DB2

Relational Database
Freemium • Proprietary

DB2 offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform from Linux to z/OS. DB2 supports storing XML and relational data and offers SQL PL and PL/SQL procedural languages.

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IBM DB2 alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022

CockroachDB
Cockroach is a distributed key/value datastore which supports ACID transactional semantics and versioned values as first-class features. The primary design goal is global consistency and survivability, hence the name.
87 CockroachDB alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- Relational Database
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
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Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a NoSQL document database service designed from the ground up to natively support JSON and JavaScript directly inside the database engine. It’s the right solution for web and mobile applications when predictable throughput, low latency, and flexible query are...
82 Azure Cosmos DB alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Azure Cosmos DB Features
NoSQL database
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Google Cloud BigQuery
Analyze Big Data in the cloud with BigQuery. Run fast, SQL-like queries against petabytes of data in seconds. Scalable and requiring no setup or administration, BigQuery gives you real-time insights about your data.
14 Google Cloud BigQuery alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- Relational Database
- Business Intelligence Tool
Platforms
- Online
Google Cloud BigQuery Features
Serverless
Scalable
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Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at any scale.
60 Amazon Redshift alternatives
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
- Relational Database
- Business Intelligence Tool
Platforms
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Amazon Web Services
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Vertica
Vertica is a grid-based, column-oriented database designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data and provide very fast query performance when used for data warehouses and other query-intensive applications.
31 Vertica alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- Business Intelligence Tool
Platforms
- Linux
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Titan Database
Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs containing hundreds of billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. Titan is a transactional database that can support thousands of concurrent users executing complex graph...
93 Titan Database alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Relational Database
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Titan Database Features
Graph database
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Clustrix
Clustrix is the leading scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud. With Clustrix, you can scale transaction throughput, run real-time analytics, and simplify operations.
51 Clustrix alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- Relational Database
- Business Intelligence Tool
Platforms
- Online
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Starcounter
The Starcounter database is built with the real-time systems of today in mind. Real-time systems supporting thousands or millions of simultaneous users. Systems like online stores, location-based services or banking applications.
58 Starcounter alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- Relational Database
- Business Intelligence Tool
Platforms
- Windows
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NuoDB
NuoDB is a distributed database that can be deployed in any datacenter, in any cloud, anywhere, without the compromises inherent in other New SQL solutions.
52 NuoDB alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- Business Intelligence Tool
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
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MarkLogic
MarkLogic is the only Enterprise NoSQL database, bringing all the features you need into one unified system: a document-centric, schema-agnostic, structure-aware, clustered, transactional, secure, database server with built-in search and a full suite of application services.
56 MarkLogic alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- Business Intelligence Tool
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
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Postgres-XC
Postgres-XC is a write-scalable synchronous multi-master PostgreSQL cluster with the following features. 1) Both read and write scalability. 2) Configured with more than one server. 3) Complete global transaction and visibility management.
50 Postgres-XC alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Relational Database
- Business Intelligence Tool
Platforms
- Linux
Discontinued
Postgres-XC has not been updated since 2015.
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SAP HANA
SAP HANA is a completely re-imagined platform for real-time business.

It transforms business by streamlining transactions, analytics, planning, predictive, sentiment data processing on a single in-memory database so business can operate in real-time.
50 SAP HANA alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- Relational Database
- Business Intelligence Tool
Platforms
- Online
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