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."Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"SQL Server is very scalable because we use it across a couple of different types of applications, such as micro-infrastructure setup and server farm."
"The product is easy to use."
"Backups hardly get corrupt."
"The most valuable feature of the solution, compared to other RDBMS solutions, such as Oracle MySQL or IBM DB2, it is more user-friendly and has backward compatibility. For example, if you have an application that requires an old version of SQL Server and you have the latest version of the license, you are able to install and use it in backward compatibility mode. They keep supporting the existing legacy application."
"The features that we have found the most valuable are reliability, availability perspective, and current scalability."
"The performance of SQL Server is perfect."
"The Always On tool improves the SQL server availability."
"I use it to fine tune my procedures and functions."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"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."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"Microsoft doesn't have active-active load balancing scenarios. It's always a failover cluster."
"It would be great if we were able to run it on multiple operating systems and not only stick with Windows."
"Analysis services have a lot of room for improvement. Basically, manageability on the available tools. They should have improved them already. They are not very efficient. My main headache is with the analysis service, and it would be really good if Microsoft developed some additional tools that are more user-friendly to manage the analysis. This is both from the perspective of management, users' roles, and performance analysis. My main wish for SQL Server would be that management tools for analysis services grow and mature a bit."
"The solution's stability can be improved."
"It pesters you to update the Client every month when there is nothing new that you really need to add, but it is constantly pestering you. I do not care for it."
"SQL Server needs to improve in performance and monitoring because there are no specific monitoring solutions to detect and analyze events for issues in the database. You have to use another monitoring solution. If Microsoft could provide an update to this solution or provide a monitoring solution specifically for SQL Server, it would be very valuable."
"The solution is expensive. The licensing costs are high."
"The pricing could be more affordable."
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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