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."I have contacted technical support, and overall my experience with technical support was okay."
"I like that it's a cloud solution, is simple to set up, and is simple to use."
"SQL Server is easy to manage."
"The product has very good online documentation that can be used for troubleshooting."
"SQL Server is a highly stable solution."
"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."
"The performance is reliable."
"I've been using SQL Server for 20 years, and there is nothing that it can't do. It is awesome."
"Since Tableau is on the cloud, we haven't faced any challenges around scalability."
"It is very easy to create dashboards, charts, and graphs."
"There are already connectors to almost every single major database and service that you can possibly think of."
"We found Tableau has the quickest learning time out of the few other BI reporting tools that we have used."
"While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution."
"The feature that is currently most valuable is the import feature where I can link to an Excel data source. I'm not using it with any other data source, such as SQL Server. I directly link it to an Excel sheet, and if I change anything in that Excel sheet, the changed data immediately gets reflected in the virtualization. This is something that is very convenient for me as of now."
"It gives us a new dimension to the way that we analyse our data."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"The price could be better. In the next release, it would be better if the database was more easily extendable."
"The interface could be updated to make it slightly more user-friendly."
"We want to move to Azure, and the solution could be made better to make the process easier for the migration from on-premise to the cloud."
"The scalability and the high availability feature can be expanded or improved. Currently, there is a limitation on scalability. A feature similar to the Oracle Diagnostic feature can be included to provide a better user experience."
"SQL Server could integrate better with other platforms."
"In terms of exceptionally large databases, it doesn't scale as well as Oracle."
"It will be very useful to have high-level database monitoring. It should also have built-in business intelligence reporting."
"The solution could be better when it comes to security."
"There should be stronger data modules for the platform."
"Its price should be improved. Its price is much higher than Power BI and QlikView. Programming is not easy on Tableau. For programming, you have to have a separate model. They should include programming directly on the web portion of the Tableau desktop so that people can write Python or JavaScript code for customizations instead of using a different model. Currently, Tableau Data Prep is a separate application that you have to purchase. It would be helpful if they can include Tableau Data Prep and programming languages such as R, Python in the next version. Tableau Public, which is a community version, doesn't allow you to save your work on your desktop. They should allow it. Currently, you can only upload it in the community."
"The product needs to allow for better ways to drill down more effectively on the information at hand."
"I would like them to include the Italian language, as I can see there are other foreign language in the product."
"The only issue with the solution is with its prices at a regional level."
"I am a BI consultant. I have worked on different reporting tools, such as Power BI and MicroStrategy. As compared to other tools, Tableau lags behind in handling huge enterprise-level data in terms of robust security and the single integrated metadata concept. When we connect to large or very big databases, then performance-wise, I sometimes found Tableau a little bit slow. It can have the single metadata concept like other tools for the reusability of the objects in multiple reports."
"Improvements in schema security and row/column security need to be made."
"The cost of owning the solutions from Tableau is much higher compared to any other analytical solutions."
SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 290 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 IBM Cognos, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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