We performed a comparison between QlikView and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"The solution is fast."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"For my business requirements, the performance is good."
"What I like most is the management, as it is very easy compared with other products."
"Enables us to convert to bigger DBs and more easily move or upgrade between branches."
"The solution has a reliable database."
"There is a lot of information about the solution readily available online."
"SQL Server is very scalable because we use it across a couple of different types of applications, such as micro-infrastructure setup and server farm."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The license fee is very low."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"The pricing is high."
"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"In my experience, I've found that scalability can be improved."
"The solution could improve by having more integration with other operating systems and other platforms."
"Indexing, as well as integration, are areas of this product that need improvement."
"Performance could be improved. There could be more support to PHP-based websites and to providing direct plugins for connections, and the related services or application services could be improved."
"SQL Server could improve by having better usability or user guidance."
"The tool's support needs to be improved."
"Security is an issue."
"Third-party services from Redgate should be built-in to it, like SQL Search."
QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. QlikView is rated 8.2, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, TIBCO Spotfire and IBM Cognos, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database.
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