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."Its availability for a secured server is one of its most valuable features. Also its replications - we can manage eight replicas. Their clustering and availability groups are also valuable."
"The scalability of the product is great."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"From a security perspective, we have no complaints."
"Its security is good. The GUI of SQL Server is also very good."
"It integrates well with other platforms."
"It can go easily on a virtual machine and be accommodated by a virtual machine easily. That is a plus, as not all databases can handle that."
"The product has been on the market for over 25 or 30 years. It's an extremely mature solution."
"It has a shallow learning curve and so you can go to market very, very, very quickly."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the permission management and the user management."
"Tableau's initial setup was straightforward."
"Partner support is very good."
"I consider Tableau to be the best analytical tool available. It's really handy to use and can be used by non-technical people."
"Data Interpreter: Which can identify issues or potential errors with your imported data."
"It is very easy to implement and to use."
"It is very good for data visualization. It has very powerful visualizations and is easy to use."
"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."
"The Management Studio is a pretty heavy piece of software, and it's sometimes slow. I would recommend making an express version of the Management Studio, which is lighter and has fewer features but is a little faster."
"Something that could be improved is the cost because it's very high. That's the only thing I'm concerned about but the technology is good."
"I would like Microsoft to evolve SQL Server because stateful databases dying are in a way. We would like to find out if it can absorb Hadoop and other similar things. They should make it useful for data mining. Data is evolving forever, and how we store it is also changing constantly. So, SQL Server also needs to change."
"It would definitely be better if SQL Server were free."
"The pricing could be more affordable."
"The performance is not always the best."
"The scalability could be better."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
"When there are millions of records, scaling up is quite difficult."
"The cost of owning the solutions from Tableau is much higher compared to any other analytical solutions."
"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."
"The product needs to allow for better ways to drill down more effectively on the information at hand."
"An advanced type of visualization is a bit tricky to create. It has something called a Calculated field, and that sometimes gets a bit difficult to use when you want to create an advanced type of visualization."
"The setup was easy but we are having some problems with the configuration that is taking a long time. We have done some initial tests and some of the delays could be from bandwidth issues. However, the whole installation process should be simplified."
"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."
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, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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