We performed a comparison between QlikView and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The solution is fast."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"Technical support is very good."
"I like that it's very easy to use, and Veeam is excellent. There are tons of experts and writers in the area now, and we don't find the same for other databases."
"The product has very good online documentation that can be used for troubleshooting."
"It is a pretty good solution. The on-premise version 2019 has many features, and they had introduced a really good and stable environment in version 2019. It has very good integration with big data clusters and other things. It covers pretty much everything that you can do with a SQL server. You can use any language to connect to it, which is not there in other solutions. They have also introduced Python, and it also has ArcScale. PaaS is a modern, scalable database. You can use Power Automate and a lot of features in this. It is very easy, and you don't have to worry about versions and upgrades. Microsoft keeps on adding new features to this solution. Microsoft is improving its connectivity on an ongoing basis. It connects well with Office 365. If you see something not working, in a couple of weeks, it is going to work because there is a team working on it. You can vote for the things that are missing, and Microsoft can work on them depending on the product that they're launching."
"A valuable feature of the solution is that it is comparatively simpler to manage than Oracle."
"The stability is fine, especially if you're hosting it on AWS or Azure. You can get up to 99.99% stability on AWS."
"It is quite reliable in cluster configurations and has helped me to reduce downtime and improve SLAs."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"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."
"Better source data connectors."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"The solution could offer better integration with other solutions - specifically Microsoft."
"As a software developer, it can be hard to do something in Oracle that is SQL Server specific, and vice-versa, sometimes."
"Primarily, the data replication and the backup areas can be improved. It should have data replication capabilities and uptime capabilities."
"Debugging from the debugger tool functionality should be enhanced."
"Performance could be better. But I don't know if it's a problem with my application or with my database."
"Sometimes, the tool doesn't support all the native features, and because of this, our company has to customize it to meet our requirements, which is a challenging process for our company's engineers."
"SQL Server could be improved with cheaper licensing because it's very expensive."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing and technical support."
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 SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise.
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