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 fact that it is free is what appeals to me the most."
"The initial setup was pretty straightforward. I would have worked with our IT team in terms of the initial setup."
"Fully scalable and stable SQL-based RDBMS, with a straightforward and easy setup."
"MySQL's most significant attribute is its capability to create, modify, and maintain databases. This is crucial and advantageous in procedures, such as SOAR. Therefore, all SQL functions are beneficial to any backend developer or developer who requires data storage."
"The solution is free to use, which is its most valuable aspect."
"It's a mature solution that's been around for decades."
"Support for enterprise-grade features like clustering, master-slave replication, even Sharding (to some extent) which is an advanced feature."
"MySQL is an easy-to-use solution that provides stability, reliability, flexibility, performance, security, and high availability."
"It is very easy to create dashboards, charts, and graphs."
"Tableau is very good in the front-end visualization compared to Power BI."
"It's intuitive and highly mature"
"Tableau's most valuable feature is its ability to connect with various data sources and display real-time data on three different dashboards."
"Self-service is most valuable. Users can pick up quickly and do the resolution. There are a lot of out-of-the-box features, and it satisfies most of the needs. If users are properly trained, they can deal with any situation."
"Since Tableau is on the cloud, we haven't faced any challenges around scalability."
"Show Me is a feature to help with knowing which chart is an appropriate one for the selected variables, and it makes helps in creating appropriate visuals."
"It’s good for quick visualization and being able to quickly consume unstructured data to play around with."
"The documentation is pretty weak and should be improved."
"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."
"MySQL lacks a feature akin to Oracle's Real Application Clusters, which ensures continuous database availability within the same data center or nearby data centers."
"I would like to see more integrations of the solution with other platforms and improve the support on different data types."
"The solution could have better integration and security features."
"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."
"Some problems with big table operations, and a struggle to keep the servers responding in peak situations."
"There should be more tools to manage the on-premises version and more automation features."
"The product's features for cloud integration need improvement."
"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."
"We have products like Tableau, Power BI, Cognos, and QlikView in the data visualization segment. Compared to those, Tableau is quite costly."
"What is happening, with so many tools coming up in the market, is that people have to continuously get educated in order to use some of the more advanced features."
"The customization requires a lot of effort and should be simplified. The performance could be better."
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"More integration with Python or something related to machine learning would be a good improvement."
"SAP BusinessObjects has some semantic layer designs that give the flexibility to do ad hoc reporting or dashboard designing. If that can be brought into Tableau, it would be great. We have the data in the database, but we should also be able to bring something between the database and the dashboard and do some semantic layer modeling for ad hoc reporting requirements."
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 and Teradata, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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