IBM DB2 Alternatives

IBM DB2 is described as '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' and is a relational database in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to IBM DB2 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best IBM DB2 alternative is DBeaver, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like IBM DB2 are SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition and MongoDB.

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  1. Gel Data icon
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    Postgres is the endgame database. Gel supercharges it with a modern data model, graph queries, Auth & AI solutions, and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PostgreSQL
    • Online
     
  2. Datahike icon
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    Datahike is a durable Datalog database powered by an efficient Datalog query engine. This project started as a port of DataScript to the hitchhiker-tree. All DataScript tests are passing, but we are still working on the internals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Open Sqlite databases and explore the internal organisation of various objects such as schema, tables and indices. To understand how Sqlite3 data is organised, please see Database file format from Sqlite website.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Sqlite Page Explorer is the most popular iPad alternative to IBM DB2.

    • Sqlite Page Explorer is Free and Open SourceIBM DB2 is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Data Virtuality’s integration solutions enable detailed insights from real time and historical data with any BI tool. By combining data virtualization with an automated ETL engine, customers benefit from reducing their data integration effort by 80%.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. PgPad icon
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    A fully free and open-source (no “community edition”, premium plans, etc.) database manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Rockset icon
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    Reimagine in-app search and analytics. Index your vector, text, geospatial and JSON data for the most efficient hybrid search and real-time analytics at any scale.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    The MySQL-compatible serverless database platform.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    SQLMachine is a freeware, safe, scalable and adequate performance client-server side architectural SQL DBMS. (Database Management System).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Home of Scimore Distributed SQL database and Scimore Embedded SQL database. Both supports SQL, ACID for both DDL&DML, advanced query prioritization and multiversioning concurrency protocol, so read transactions never blocks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. ufoSQL icon
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    ufoSQL is a safe and performance client-server architectural SQL DBMS (Database Management System) for Windows 64 bit operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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