We performed a comparison between SQL Server and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and others in Relational Databases Tools."Excel integration is one of its most valuable features."
"It is easy to deploy and easy to maintain."
"The solution has proven to be very stable."
"The performance of the SQL Server is very good."
"SQL Server is quite stable. And now we are using the Lattice 2017 version."
"The initial setup is time-efficient and can be done independently."
"The pricing of the solution is okay. It's less expensive than Oracle, for example."
"The technical support is good."
"The solution deployment was straightforward."
"I consider Tableau to be the best analytical tool available. It's really handy to use and can be used by non-technical people."
"The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns."
"Tableau is easy to use. That's the first and most important thing. I not only provide consulting but I also train people to use it, so with its ease-of-use it's not as difficult for me to train executives and management staff, because they don't have the IT background, unlike when I'm using Python."
"I like the visualization component."
"It's easy to use."
"The most important feature is the tool is very easy to use. This makes it simple to introduce it to CxOs. After a rapid demo, they are usual impressed by the results shown, because it has such a rare simplicity."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the general dashboard features."
"Scalability is an area that needs improvement, and the deployment is difficult, which why I'm looking for an appliance to deploy it in a much more scalable way."
"The product overall would benefit from the addition of better tutorials to help master the skills necessary to actually build a project database. Right now, what is available isn't sufficient."
"Since this is a relational order system, scalability has a limit. If your system is very big, you need bigger servers and you have to spend more money. We scale a system up to a certain level, and then we move or shift data to the warehouse, which is NoSQL. We then do not have any bottleneck in scaling. For using this technique we are happy with it."
"Debugging from the debugger tool functionality should be enhanced."
"The interface could be updated to make it slightly more user-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in performance when managing a large quality of data and a high number of active users."
"Occasionally the performance, as good as it is, is a bit off. We sometimes experience memory spiking. If they could maybe fix that aspect of the solution, that would be quite helpful for our organization."
"The solution’s pricing and integration could be improved."
"I take a long time to process the hundreds of thousands or millions of records that must be processed every day."
"It's not an aesthetic platform at the moment."
"The charts need to be improved. The drawings and the visualization need to be more accurate."
"People are migrating to Microsoft BI due to the speed, which is quite slow to load, and the lack of visualization options."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"The customization requires a lot of effort and should be simplified. The performance could be better."
"The performance could be better."
"Lacks customization in some areas."
SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. SQL Server is rated 8.4, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". 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". SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and SAP SQL Anywhere, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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