We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."Provides a full platform (database, ETL, reporting, analysis, and so on)"
"The use of graphics to show and view the data indicators is the most valuable feature. It is also very stable."
"The stability is good."
"Constant collaboration is the most valuable. I can build a dashboard, and several co-workers can access this dashboard. We can share information that is important for decision-making. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution. It is compatible with a lot of data sources. It is also very stable and scalable. There is also a very good forum and a lot of help and online training."
"It's easy to create reports and it's easy to download the data from the corresponding report."
"Users already using Excel can generate new reports and dashboards within minutes."
"The initial setup is simple to do."
"Reports, dashboards, and visualizations are most valuable."
"Microsoft is less demanding because everything is GUI, unlike Oracle, where you need to use command lines."
"From a security perspective, we have no complaints."
"For me, the initial setup is very easy as I have years of experience with the product."
"SQL Server is a highly stable solution."
"The solution has the capability to scale."
"SQL Server, a widely adopted database management system, is utilized across numerous sectors. Initially competing with Oracle and Db2, SQL Server has gained popularity. It serves as the backend database for a variety of applications."
"They have improved the UI and ease of accessing the database and server which is good. You can load it up and start using it from the very minute it is implemented."
"It is the latest technology and pretty powerful in terms of the high availability of the virtual server."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"The formatting template could be improved."
"I feel the modeling page should be simplified."
"The solution could improve by simplifying the user interface and adding integration or compatibility with APA."
"The cost of the solution can get high."
"SSMS & SSRS."
"The reporting could be a bit better."
"I would like for the next release to have better desktop performance, especially for big databases. Additionally, I would like to have more integrations with programs like Salesforce in order to get more live data coming in."
"It is very costly, and that's the reason people are moving away from SQL Server."
"For small-scale businesses, Microsoft could improve by removing some limits in SQL Express."
"It would be great if we were able to run it on multiple operating systems and not only stick with Windows."
"Running multiple instances on the same box would be beneficial."
"The solution's stability can be improved."
"Its ability to handle certain kinds of large data could be improved."
"The solution is rather expensive."
"The scalability is adequate but could improve."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database.
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