We performed a comparison between MySQL and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, PostgreSQL, Firebird and others in Open Source Databases."The initial setup was pretty straightforward. I would have worked with our IT team in terms of the initial setup."
"The fact that it is free is what appeals to me the most."
"The main advantage is the very large user base. This enables users to fix about any issue by answering any question."
"The IO segregation in CGE is valuable."
"The initial setup was easy. I work in an agile way, which means coding and deploying quickly."
"I like MySQL's feature that helps to automate things."
"The initial setup for the SQL database is not complex and it even integrates into the platform. You set up the recipe and then just follow the runbook, the build book. Then it works as long as you follow the procedures."
"MySQL is open-source. There are a lot of open-source communities trying to come up with their own patches, and to come up with their own features, which help MySQL develop faster than traditional databases like Oracle, which is closed source."
"Visualization attributes: Marks – Color, Size, Label, etc.. Easily Accessible and Intuitive."
"The UI part is the best. The end-users can easily get started with Tableau Desktop or Tableau Online because of its user-friendliness."
"Tableau is easy to use and it has great predictive features."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The number one thing was just the ease of getting something up quickly. The other thing that was good about it was that it was fairly fast for decent-sized data sets in terms of performance and run time."
"Tableau is a fantastic tool that provides impressive dashboards and customized reports."
"The solution helps users create dashboards and analyze data without relying on IT or product teams."
"You can create attractive dashboards that inform users using Tableau."
"The replication needs improvement. It's becoming a native cloud product like Oracle DB or Cockroach DB."
"It requires a training platform."
"The licensing of the solution is on the expensive side."
"We have encountered some performance issues, and the solution takes time for performing complex queries."
"It is not as powerful as SQL Server. It can be more powerful. It is not scalable and has certain limitations, which is not the case with SQL Server."
"It isn't as reliable as an SQL Server."
"In an upcoming release, there should be something added similar to EPL. For example, when using the flow diagram, we can create a schema. We have two useful features to add or create the table, but there should be some UI features to allow us to drag and drop to create other schemas. This would be very helpful."
"The workbench could be improved. In particular, error messages can be improved, which are horrific and completely unhelpful. I'd like to see improved parsing of errors. When you write SQL and it crashes, it usually is something completely irrelevant and not helpful. I've started to use GPT 3.5 for finding out how to do things. I got to do something a bit different, and that I found to be very useful. If there was some way to tie it into one of the new AI tools, that would probably be a good idea."
"If you mainly need a tool for BI reporting, it's not the best option. Tableau needs better abilities to generate simple reports, integrate, create databases, and work with data lakes."
"It would be nice to include more features on each dashboard."
"The price of Tableau is too high."
"They need to improve the bar chart position and width."
"When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography."
"Creating empty extracts is not easy."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
"I take a long time to process the hundreds of thousands or millions of records that must be processed every day."
MySQL is ranked 1st in Open Source Databases with 142 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. MySQL is rated 8.2, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Teradata and SAP HANA, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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