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."The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"Many developers like SQL Server."
"I have found that SQL Server works very well in the Microsoft Dynamics environment."
"I have seen that this is a very stable product."
"SQL Server Profiler makes finding and debugging easy."
"The solution is very common. It's easy to use."
"The installation is pretty straightforward."
"It is easy to deploy and easy to maintain."
"The data visualization piece is most valuable. We do ad-hoc analysis or one-time shot things, but there are things that we have to track every single day. When our management and our customers want to see how things are changing, the dashboarding provides that information. Tableau is key in providing that data on a refresh basis. We use a data blending tool that pumps the data into Tableau, and we just schedule it to run every single day. So, the automation of the data and being able to present it to people who are interested are the most valuable features."
"Compared to other products, visualization features are really good."
"The most valuable feature is the 3D charting."
"Tableau is an advanced specialized tool. One of the best features I've seen is the lack of an intermediate semantic layer. I think that's an advantage compared to any other tool like BusinessObjects or Power BI, which are Tableau's biggest competitors."
"The data blending capabilities is a huge factor for our team."
"I like Tableau's heat maps and the storyboard. You can create data stories and tons of visuals with it, and it goes together really well. Tableau lets you manipulate the data in various ways."
"It's very user-friendly. It's not like Power BI, Tableau is very user-friendly. Anybody can use Tableau. It's very easy to adopt things. I can visualize the stats."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"For a big amount of data, when we are speaking about IoT Segments, and Big Data projects, there are performance issues."
"The solution is rather expensive."
"The pricing could be more affordable."
"The maintenance and tasks should be improved so as to reduce database files."
"From a DB administrator perspective, I would like to see more space requirements and space capacity history, so that we are able to see which DBs are growing, and by how much per day or week."
"The interface integration could be better."
"The scalability is adequate but could improve."
"Their support could be better. There should be more visibility on the progress of the ticket, and their last line of support should be more knowledgeable. Other than that, we have nothing to complain about."
"Many things have to be improved in Tableau. Right now, we make the calculation, and then we get that information. It would be better if business users could do that. I would ask the people at Tableau to provide that option to business users to get that information in one click. It would be better if they automated some calculations. There should be more automation in Tableau. However, there are many things in automation mode, but it is very limited at the moment. We need automation for people who do not know much about Tableau. It would also be better if there were good community support like in Alteryx."
"Tableau support could be improved."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
"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 process of embedding the dashboards on external portals and websites could be improved."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"I would like the solution to have certain features allowing the delivery of reports to the email."
"When there are millions of records, scaling up is quite difficult."
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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