Compare Arango and IBM Db2 
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Small-Business (57.9% of reviews)
Enterprise (66.0% of reviews)
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Arango
Star Rating
(115)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (57.9% of reviews)
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Entry-Level Pricing
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Star Rating
(682)4.1 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (66.0% of reviews)
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Browse all 6 pricing plansArango vs IBM Db2
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Arango easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Arango overall.
- Reviewers felt that Arango meets the needs of their business better than IBM Db2.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Arango is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Arango over IBM Db2.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Arango
ArangoGraph Insights Platform
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The managed service for ArangoDB provides fully-hosted, managed, & monitored cluster deployments of any size, with enterprise-grade security. rices depend on selected cloud provider, region, disk & CPU size.
- Fully Managed: ArangoDB Oasis offers a fully-managed graph database, document store and full-text search engine. All in one place
- Highly Secure: Encryption at transit & at rest guarantee all your data is encrypted before it hits the disk or send over the network. In addition, you can assign fine-grained access control policies to your organization, your projects or deployments. This assigns permissions to groups or individual users
- Elastic Scale: You can elastically scale with all deployment models (OneShard & Sharded Clusters) at anytime and use the special Enterprise features for efficient queries against distributed data
IBM Db2
Db2 On Cloud - Lite
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A completely free edition of DB2 on Cloud.
- Enjoy high performance and elastic scaling with Db2’s fully managed database and warehouse solutions in the cloud. Try for free.
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Arango
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Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.8
104
8.5
488
Ease of Use
8.9
105
8.0
497
Ease of Setup
8.7
72
7.7
263
Ease of Admin
8.7
55
7.7
242
Quality of Support
8.8
92
8.1
461
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.0
47
8.3
234
Product Direction (% positive)
9.2
104
6.8
456
Features by Category
Compatibility
8.3
11
Not enough data
7.4
11
Not enough data
8.3
11
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Enterprise Search Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Search Queries
7.4
12
Not enough data
7.9
12
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.1
12
Not enough data
8.1
13
Not enough data
AI powered search - Enterprise Search Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.3
15
Not enough data
Compatibility - Enterprise Search Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality - Enterprise Search Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Search Queries - Enterprise Search Software
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data Management
Not enough data
8.6
52
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.1
48
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.6
49
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.2
48
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.5
34
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.6
34
|
Verified
Integration
Not enough data
7.8
43
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.1
45
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.1
42
|
Verified
Deployment
Not enough data
8.4
50
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.8
41
|
Verified
Performance
Not enough data
8.6
51
|
Verified
Security
Not enough data
8.7
46
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.0
35
|
Verified
Generative AI
Not enough data
8.3
8
Not enough data
8.3
8
Management
Not enough data
8.6
60
Not enough data
8.4
62
Not enough data
8.2
52
Not enough data
8.5
55
Support
Not enough data
8.0
57
Not enough data
8.4
60
Not enough data
7.9
60
Not enough data
8.4
61
Security
Not enough data
8.5
60
Not enough data
8.8
60
Not enough data
8.4
58
Not enough data
8.4
56
Performance
Not enough data
8.6
62
Not enough data
8.6
58
Not enough data
8.5
56
Not enough data
8.4
57
Not enough data
8.4
57
Database Features
Not enough data
8.7
306
Not enough data
8.8
309
Not enough data
8.8
309
Not enough data
8.4
304
Not enough data
8.8
302
Not enough data
8.4
303
Not enough data
8.4
308
Data Management
9.1
18
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.9
18
|
Verified
Not enough data
Availability
9.4
13
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.0
13
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.3
14
|
Verified
Not enough data
Performance
8.0
15
|
Verified
Not enough data
Security
7.9
15
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
15
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.1
14
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
13
|
Verified
Not enough data
Support
9.3
17
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
15
|
Verified
Not enough data
Data Management
9.2
35
Not enough data
9.1
35
Not enough data
8.6
33
Not enough data
6.8
29
Not enough data
Availability
7.6
22
Not enough data
7.6
23
Not enough data
7.8
24
Not enough data
Performance
8.4
32
Not enough data
Security
8.0
28
Not enough data
7.7
28
Not enough data
7.6
26
Not enough data
8.0
28
Not enough data
Support
9.1
32
Not enough data
8.4
31
Not enough data
7.1
25
Not enough data
Data Management
9.2
40
Not enough data
8.9
41
Not enough data
8.5
40
Not enough data
7.5
34
Not enough data
9.2
41
Not enough data
Availability
8.5
29
Not enough data
8.4
30
Not enough data
Performance
8.9
37
Not enough data
Security
8.2
35
Not enough data
8.2
34
Not enough data
8.0
33
Not enough data
8.3
36
Not enough data
Support
9.1
39
Not enough data
7.8
33
Not enough data
8.6
40
Not enough data
Automation
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.5
9
Functionality
Not enough data
7.4
9
Not enough data
8.1
9
Not enough data
8.0
9
Administration
Not enough data
8.3
8
Not enough data
7.7
8
Not enough data
7.7
8
Agentic AI - Data Warehouse Automation
Not enough data
Not enough data
Configuration
8.4
19
8.5
65
8.1
18
8.1
60
7.3
18
8.5
66
7.4
15
8.3
61
8.7
15
8.6
62
Database Administration
7.5
17
8.6
60
7.9
17
8.8
60
7.4
16
8.8
59
Availability
8.8
16
8.9
63
9.1
15
9.1
62
8.9
16
8.8
63
9.0
17
8.9
63
Security
7.4
15
8.4
41
7.9
16
8.8
42
7.2
15
8.8
41
Data Management
8.1
15
8.7
45
7.8
15
8.6
44
Database Features
Not enough data
8.7
306
Not enough data
8.8
309
Not enough data
8.8
309
Not enough data
8.4
304
Not enough data
8.8
302
Not enough data
8.4
303
Not enough data
8.4
308
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Arango and IBM Db2 are categorized as Database as a Service (DBaaS)
Unique Categories
Arango is categorized as Enterprise Search Software, Graph Databases, Document Databases, and Key Value Databases
IBM Db2 is categorized as Relational Databases, Data Warehouse, Object-Oriented Databases, XML Databases, and Data Warehouse Automation
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Arango
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
IBM Db2
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
20.9%
Computer Software
19.1%
Internet
7.0%
Financial Services
6.1%
Hospital & Health Care
5.2%
Other
41.7%
Information Technology and Services
21.6%
Banking
11.7%
Computer Software
10.1%
Financial Services
7.2%
Insurance
5.9%
Other
43.6%
Alternatives
Discussions
How was the experience with driver support and documentation.
1 Comment
NG
Documentation is detailed, StackOverflow community for ArangoDB is also active, so it's easy to learn. ArangoDB is accessed primarily via REST interface and...Read more
Is ArangoDB free?
1 Comment
PG
ArangoDb community is free, which you can install on your computer (Windows, linux, etc.) This is what I use! I'm pretty sure you can go far with the free...Read more
What is ArangoDB used for?
1 Comment
PM
Arango DB is a NoSQL Database software system. It supports the usual features all the traditional NoSQL databases has. It also has support to run graphing...Read more
Where can I find answers to other questions I may have?
2 Comments
Official Response from IBM Db2
Please visit: https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/436870/common-questions-about-the-db2-on-cloud-free-plan/Read more
I want to replace KDB+ with DB2 BLU, before doing this in my project, i want to know following answers.
1. Is DB2 BLU , capable for this type of achievement which KDB+ do?
2. can you please give me a list comparison between DB2 BLU with KDB+?
1 Comment
NO
Please check:
https://db-engines.com/en/system/IBM+Db2%3BKdb%2B
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Which tool do you use for deep monitoring of IBM DB2 databases (instances) ?
1 Comment
MF
Maxim, we have a dedicated management console that comes free with Db2. It was called Data Server Manager in the past, now we call it the Unified Management...Read more
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