🆚 IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server
- 📈 Microsoft SQL Server is much more popular than IBM Db2.
- 🌎 Microsoft SQL Server is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 IBM Db2 is more popular in Costa Rica and Korea.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Database technology
Database technology
About
IBM Db2 is a relational database management system designed to handle massive volumes of data.
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft.
It supports Transact-SQL (T-SQL) as its query language, runs on both 
Windows and 
Linux platforms, includes features such as Always On Availability Groups, in-memory OLTP, Transparent Data Encryption, and row-level security.
Headquarters
Armonk, New York, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️Community Edition
Standard$99+/month
Enterprise$969/month
Free version ✔️Express
Pay-as-you-go
Standard$73/core/month
Enterprise$274/core/month
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Microsoft SQL Server database technology is 33 times more popular than IBM Db2.
Total websites
Market share
Databases
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Microsoft SQL Server is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while IBM Db2 is more popular in Costa Rica and Korea.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Denmark
Netherlands
Canada
Germany
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Japan
Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the Databases category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the Databases category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Iran in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Databases category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Microsoft SQL Server is more popular than IBM Db2 in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Health
Finance/Banking
Education/Reference
Travel
Online Shopping
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Government/Military
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Memcached
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Tarantool🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.