9 engineers on Hacker News describe using IBM Db2 first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“every technology on it and the hardware itself is rock solid”
mixed · production · leokennis · 2020-08-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was never able to 'trust' it as I could trust the good-old IBM DB2 database the bank had.”
endorse · production · spapas82 · 2020-06-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Agreed about DB2, although I don't believe the innovation there is as strong as at once was. We run it on Redhat”
mixed · production · nineteen999 · 2018-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I installed DB2 Express-C on my Ubuntu box, and not only did it break itself after one day, it completely broke apt-get.”
regret · personal · derwiki · 2010-01-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use DB2 as our main database.”
neutral · production · hnurl · 2025-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In our shop we do it daily. In prod stats are up to date, we have job that would get all the stats from prod”
neutral · production · bobbydreamer · 2018-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using SQL over 20 years in Oracle/Informix/Sybase/IBMDB2/MSSQL”
neutral · production · jasode · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“IBM insists that we use DB2 and run on their flavor of server-side Linux”
neutral · production · douche · 2015-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“open external resources (files, DB2 tables), check for IO errors, process the data, close the resources.”
neutral · production · zcdziura · 2015-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?