We performed a comparison between SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and others in Relational Databases Tools."The security and vulnerability management are well-managed through the vendor."
"The backups are excellent."
"The solution is valuable because it seamlessly extracts reports and enables the collection of information from different tables."
"We have many users, between 50 and 100 using the SQL Server product."
"The backup capabilities are extremely good."
"One of the best features of SQL Server is the efficient retrieval of information."
"SQL Server is quite user-friendly. I have experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL, so out of three, I like SQL Server a lot."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"We used it pretty heavily in gathering data, which goes to our VPs. They are able to base their next revenue planning based on this metric. So, it has been invaluable."
"The out-of-the-box features are simple and easy to use across the board."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."
"Data discovery is very simple."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"One of the main features is integrated statistical analysis."
"R and automation services."
"The solution could use better governance on the management side, especially around data governance."
"It would be great if we were able to run it on multiple operating systems and not only stick with Windows."
"The solution could be better integrated with the SQL Server Studio tool."
"They need to improve their support. It should be faster."
"Sometimes the system hangs. Its databases should be able to deal with more data in a faster way. Its speed of processing larger amounts of information should be improved."
"They can build more performance-tuning tools in it. They can also make the stuff a little more user-friendly and provide the ability to schedule jobs. They can perhaps also streamline it a little bit so that it is not so resource-intensive, which would be helpful. SQL Server has a tendency to consume all the memory you allow it to. If you are not careful, you can basically break your server. I would like to see it having a smaller footprint in terms of system resource consumption. They might want to consider re-evaluating their pricing. It is expensive."
"Query optimitzer could be simplified."
"Improvements to the indexing, columnstore indexing, and high availability groups are good improvements for future versions."
"Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier."
"We would like to see some development in the visualization aspect of this solution, as they can currently only be configured in the cloud, which limits us to one endpoint. It would be helpful if this could be integrated with other tools."
"The initial setup is complicated and needs experience and knowledge."
"The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier."
"The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."
"The handling and consumption of realtime data could be improved."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"We would like an easier way to get the product to the cloud. Right now, we have the on-premise version, and we would like to find a way to make it easier to migrate it over to the cloud."
SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. SQL Server is rated 8.4, while TIBCO Spotfire 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 TIBCO Spotfire writes "Empowers us to extract insights and provide valuable business analytics to support decision-making within our organization". SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Qlik Sense and ThoughtSpot.
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